Brief Life History of Mattie Jean
When Mattie Jean Adams was born on 16 September 1873, in Newberry, South Carolina, United States, her father, Thomas Hill Adams, was 35 and her mother, Eliza Frances C. Kelly, was 34. She lived in Gilbert, Lexington, South Carolina, United States in 1910 and Hendersonville, Henderson, North Carolina, United States in 1947. She died on 26 December 1947, in Henderson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Leesville, Lexington, South Carolina, United States.
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- Jean M Adams in household of Thomas H Adams, "United States Census, 1910"
- Mattie Jean Haynes, "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994"
- Mattie Jean Haynes, "North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1877 · Last Troops Leave
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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