When Ruth Irene Whitehead was born on 23 April 1906, in Prentiss, Jefferson Davis, Mississippi, United States, her father, Riley Johnson Whitehead, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead, was 23. She had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Buford Larkin Wilson. She lived in Beat 3, Jefferson Davis, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years. She died on 14 September 1976, in Prentiss, Jefferson Davis, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 70.
English: nickname from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hed ‘head’ (Old English hwīt + hēafod), denoting a person with white or fair hair. Occasionally perhaps from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + hod ‘hood’ (Old English hwīt + hōd).
Irish: adopted by erroneous translation of Ó Ceanndubháin ‘descendant of the little black-headed one’ (see Canavan ), as if from Gaelic ceann ‘head’ + bán ‘white’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Weisshaupt (see Weishaupt ) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf ).
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