Brief Life History of Eliza Susan
When Eliza Susan Martin was born on 6 May 1883, in Mississippi, United States, her father, James Arthur Martin, was 15 and her mother, Mary Katherine Williams, was 21. She married John Wesley Brooks Sr. on 23 June 1907, in Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Walthall, Webster, Mississippi, United States in 1900 and Hohenlinden, Webster, Mississippi, United States in 1920. She died on 19 July 1978, in Mantee, Webster, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Mantee, Webster, Mississippi, United States.
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- Eliza Susan Martin in household of James A Martin, "United States Census, 1900"
- Eliza Martin Brooks, "Find A Grave Index"
- Liza Martin in entry for Max Cooper Collins and Willie Mae Brooks, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop
When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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