Brief Life History of Willis Teen
When Willis Teen Whitehead was born on 2 November 1913, in Maxdale, Bell, Texas, United States, his father, Joseph Austin Whitehead, was 32 and his mother, Lillie Effie May Smith, was 25. He married Rena Crabtree about 1936, in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Hopkins, Texas, United States in 1935 and Justice Precinct 3, Hopkins, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 23 May 1978, in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins, Texas, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Reilly Springs, Hopkins, Texas, United States.
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- Willie Whitehead in household of J A Whitehead, "United States Census, 1930"
- Willis Teen Whitehead, "Texas Deaths, 1977-1986"
- Willis T Whitehead in entry for Betty Lou Petzold, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1914 · Steamboat Service Established with New York
Satilla was the first Deepwater Steamship to arrive at the port of Houston. This accomplishment successfully established a steamboat service between Houston and New York City.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hed ‘head’ (Old English hwīt + hēafod), denoting a person with white or fair hair. Occasionally perhaps from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + hod ‘hood’ (Old English hwīt + hōd).
Irish: adopted by erroneous translation of Ó Ceanndubháin ‘descendant of the little black-headed one’ (see Canavan ), as if from Gaelic ceann ‘head’ + bán ‘white’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Weisshaupt (see Weishaupt ) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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