Brief Life History of Myrtle Lee
When Myrtle Lee Cobbs was born on 26 February 1915, in Mitchell, Sabine, Louisiana, United States, her father, Henry Thomas Cobbs, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Eunice Sistrunk, was 20. She married M. B. Thompson on 11 April 1931. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Ward Four, Sabine, Louisiana, United States in 1940 and Sabine, Louisiana, United States in 1950. She died on 23 December 1985, in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Converse, Sabine, Louisiana, United States.
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- Myrtle L Thompson, "United States Census, 1950"
- Myrtle Lee Cobbs Thompson, "Find A Grave Index"
- Myrtle Cobbs in entry for Henry Thompson, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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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.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
Name Meaning
Probably an altered form of German Kobs or Dutch and German Kops ; compare Copps .
English: variant of Cobb , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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