When Willie Mae Autry was born on 25 June 1907, in Georgia, United States, her father, William Elbert Autry, was 37 and her mother, Nancy Octavia Nicholson, was 33. She had at least 1 son with Minor Webster Eddinger. She lived in Winder, Barrow, Georgia, United States in 1920 and Macon, Bibb, Georgia, United States in 1930. She died on 14 April 1985, in Morgan, Alabama, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Winder, Barrow, Georgia, United States.
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Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Historical Boundaries 1914: Barrow, Georgia, United States
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
French: habitational name from Autry, the name of several places in Allier, Ardennes, and Loiret, or Autrey, the name of several places in Haute-Saône. This surname is virtually non-existing in France. Compare Autery , Autrey , Awtrey , and Awtry .
Alternatively, perhaps an altered form of French Audry: from the Old French personal name Audry, from ancient Germanic Aldric, composed of the elements ald ‘old’ + rīc ‘power’.
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