Brief Life History of Melvin
When Melvin Eddy was born on 26 June 1869, in Ludlow, Champaign, Illinois, United States, his father, James Moody Eddy, was 31 and his mother, Caroline Catherine Hawes, was 25. He married Clarinda Clara M. Sprouse on 12 November 1890. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Menard, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 24 November 1941, in Athens, Menard, Illinois, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Athens, Menard, Illinois, United States.
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- Melvin Eddy in household of Ethel M Clive, "United States Census, 1940"
- Melvin Eddy, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Melvin Eddy, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
Cornish: from the personal name Edy (pronounced ‘eedy’), a variant of Udy , from the Middle English personal name Ude, Udy, Latinized as Udo and Odo. It may represent Old French Eude (ancient Germanic Eudo, of uncertain etymology), whose usual Latin form is Eudo. This agrees with later evidence that the original pronunciation of the initial vowel of Udy was /y:/ (as in French tu), though in the 16th century it was sometimes unrounded to /i:/, spelled -e(e)-. It was later altered to Eddy.
English: variant of Eady .
English: perhaps from a shortened form of the Middle English personal name Edwy (Old English Ēadwīg, from ēad ‘prosperity, fortune’ + wīg ‘war’), which has not survived in that form as a surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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