Margaret Jane Lea

Brief Life History of Margaret Jane

When Margaret Jane Lea was born on 14 May 1868, in Person, North Carolina, United States, her father, Wiley Ellis Lea, was 22 and her mother, Eliza Frances Riggs, was 18. She had at least 2 sons and 5 daughters with William Edward Martin. She lived in West Durham, Durham, North Carolina, United States in 1935 and Durham, Durham, North Carolina, United States in 1940. She died on 25 May 1962, at the age of 94, and was buried in Durham, Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Edward Martin
1850–1927
Margaret Jane Lea
1868–1962
William Claude Martin
1900–1970
Samuel Lea Martin
1902–1991
Mary Margaret Martin
1905–1979
Sally Frances Martin
1906–2003
Kathleen Martin
1908–2004
Rachel Martin Lewis
1910–1975
Jessie Martin
1915–1917

Sources (28)

  • Margarett Lea in household of Ellis Lea, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Margrite Jane Lee, "North Carolina, Center for Health Statistics, Vital Records Unit, County Birth Records, 1913-1922"
  • Margaret Jane Lea Martin, "North Carolina, Deaths, 1931-1994"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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: variant of Lee .

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 李 and 利, see Li 1 and 3.

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

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