Mary W. Overstreet

Brief Life History of Mary W.

When Mary W. Overstreet was born on 26 January 1877, in Smith, Tennessee, United States, her father, William Pitts Overstreet, was 23 and her mother, Mary Lucy Woodard, was 18. She married George W Woodard on 14 May 1922, in Smith, Tennessee, United States. She lived in Civil District 16, Smith, Tennessee, United States for about 40 years. She died on 29 December 1949, in Smith, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Craig Cemetery, Elmwood, Smith, Tennessee, United States.

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George W Woodard
1876–1970
Mary W. Overstreet
1877–1949
Marriage: 14 May 1922

Sources (13)

  • Mary Woodard, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Mary Overstreet, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Mary Overstreet Woodard, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"

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World Events (8)

1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

Probably an altered form of Flemish Overstraete: topographic name for someone who lived ‘on the other side of the street’, or a habitational name from a place so named. This surname was brought to North America from England.

Possibly also an Americanized form of German Oberstrass: topographic name from a field so named, in particular one near Wermelskirchen in Rhineland.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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