Brief Life History of Myrtie Cleo
When Myrtie Cleo Holbrook was born on 10 June 1903, her father, James A Holbrook, was 32 and her mother, Artie Mae Bramblett, was 20. She married Howard Thompson Phillips on 21 November 1920, in Dawson, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Dearborn, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1930 and District 792, Cherokee, Georgia, United States in 1940. She died on 3 August 1993, in Canton, Cherokee, Georgia, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Canton, Cherokee, Georgia, United States.
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Sources (10)
- Myrtie Phillips in household of Howard Phillips, "United States Census, 1940"
- Mirtie Holbrooks, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Myrtie C Phillips, "Georgia Death Index, 1933-1998"
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World Events (8)
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1906 · The Atlanta Race Riot
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ + brōc ‘brook, stream’, such as Holbrook (Derbyshire, Dorset, Suffolk) and Howbrook in Wortley (Yorkshire).
Americanized form of North German Halbrock (or some like-sounding surname), a cognate of 1 above.
History: This name was first taken to America by the brothers Thomas and John Holbrook, who emigrated to MA in the 17th century; their line can be traced back to Dundry, Somerset, England, in the first half of the 16th century. Other English bearers who started early lines of descent in the New World are Joseph Ho(u)lbrook of Warrington, Lancashire, who emigrated to MD as an indentured servant in the later 17th century; Randolph Holbrook, who was in VA in the 1720s but later returned to Nantwich, Cheshire; and Rev. John Holbrook, who emigrated from Handbury, Staffordshire, to NJ c. 1723.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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