Brief Life History of Mary Eula
When Mary Eula Reed was born on 26 October 1865, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States, her father, Wade Hampton Reed, was 32 and her mother, Rachel Susan Robinson, was 34. She had at least 3 sons and 4 daughters with George Bennett Kittrell. She lived in Union Twp, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States in 1910 and Portsmouth, Virginia, United States in 1930. She died on 17 September 1910, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States.
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- May M Reid in household of Wade Reid, "United States Census, 1880"
- Eula Reed, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Mary Ula Kittrell, "BillionGraves Index"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1871 · KKK Supression
In March of 1871, in an attempt to supress the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, President Grant sends troops in. Later that year in October, the KKK are told to disarm and break up. They do not do this and later many are arrested by the US marshals.
1878 · Liberian Exodus
April 21, 1878, around 206 African Americans boarde the ship Azor for Liberia.The cause for this is with the rise of political power, it makes life even harder for the African Americans.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English and Older Scots red(e) ‘red’, no doubt denoting someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
English: from Middle English ride, rede, rude (Old English rīed, rēod, rȳd) ‘clearing’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in or near a clearing, or habitational, for someone who lived at one of a number of places so named, including Rede Court in Strood (Kent), Rides in Eastchurch (Kent), Ride Way in Ewhurst (Surrey), and Reed Farm in Wadhurst (Sussex). The word is particularly common in the southeastern counties of England, from Kent to the Isle of Wight. See also Rider and Reader .
English: habitational name from Read (Lancashire), Reed (Hertfordshire), or Rede (Suffolk). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English rǣge ‘roe, female roe deer’ + hēafod ‘head’. The Hertfordshire placename derives from Old English rȳhth ‘rough piece of ground’. The etymology of the Suffolk placename is uncertain.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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