Dorothy Sammons

Brief Life History of Dorothy

When Dorothy Sammons was born in 1913, her father, Austin Lee Sammons, was 35 and her mother, Carrie May Jones, was 24. She married John Morrison Deal on 2 November 1936, in Wadesboro, Anson, North Carolina, United States. She lived in Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States for about 10 years. She died in March 1960, in Anniston, Calhoun, Alabama, United States, at the age of 47.

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Luther Houston Skinner
1891–1959
Dorothy Sammons
1913–1960
Marriage: 15 June 1951

Sources (11)

  • Dortha Sammons in household of Aust L Sammons, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Dorothy Sammons, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
  • Dorthea S. Burns, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"

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World Events (8)

1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment

The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

1916 · Anthony Crawford Lynched

South Carolina native, father to 13 children, and a local farmer, Anthony Crawford, is lynched on October 21, 1916, in Abbeyville, South Carolina. The lynching is followed after Crawford has an arguement with a white storekeeper.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Sammon (see Salmon ), with post-medieval excrescent -s.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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