Brief Life History of Mary Edmonia
When Mary Edmonia Kerr was born on 6 April 1912, in Washington, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States, her father, Lindsey Jackson Kerr Jr, was 36 and her mother, Lora Charles, was 25. She married Ellis Lee Ganey Sr in 1935. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Justice Precinct 2, Orange, Texas, United States in 1920. She died on 10 June 1985, in Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Orange, Texas, United States.
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- Mary Kerr, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mary Kerr, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
- Mary Kerr, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953"
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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.
1914 · Steamboat Service Established with New York
Satilla was the first Deepwater Steamship to arrive at the port of Houston. This accomplishment successfully established a steamboat service between Houston and New York City.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swampy woodland, Middle English kerr ‘brushwood, wet ground’ (Old Norse kjarr). A legend grew up that the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from Gaelic cearr ‘wrong-handed, left-handed’.
Irish: variant of Carr .
Americanized form of German Kehr or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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