Brief Life History of Mary Etta
When Mary Etta Brock was born on 6 December 1876, in DeKalb, Alabama, United States, her father, Isaiah Hiram Brock, was 41 and her mother, Mary Catherine Standifer, was 29. She married Kenneth Manko Longshore on 9 December 1894, in DeKalb, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Election Precinct 1 Brindley, DeKalb, Alabama, United States for about 20 years. She died on 2 October 1957, in Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in East Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama, United States.
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- Ella Mae Studdard in household of Chester Alvin Studdard, "United States Census, 1940"
- Marietta Brock, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Mary Etta Studdard, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and North German: variant of Brook .
English and Scandinavian: nickname for a person supposedly resembling a badger, from Middle English brok(ke) ‘badger’ (Old English brocc) and Danish brok (a word of Celtic origin; compare Welsh broch, Cornish brogh, Irish broc). In the Middle Ages badgers were regarded as unpleasant creatures.
Dutch and Flemish: from a personal name, a short form of Brockert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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