Brief Life History of Effie
When Effie Sellers was born on 14 May 1891, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Robert Hatten Sellers, was 35 and her mother, Ester Nancy Campbell, was 30. She married Claud Capps on 29 February 1912, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Civil District 17, Gibson, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. She died in August 1977, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Bradford, Gibson, Tennessee, United States.
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- Effie ? Sellers in household of Robert ? Sellers, "United States Census, 1900"
- Effie Sellars, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Effie Capps, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): variant of Seller , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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