Brief Life History of Claud Clay
When Claud Clay Summers was born on 2 January 1887, in Obion, Tennessee, United States, his father, Jacob Eliphalet Jake Summers, was 31 and his mother, Mary Marshall Hayes, was 25. He married Mattie Pearl Short on 4 November 1906. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Civil District 12, Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Civil District 5, Obion, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. He died on 27 October 1950, in Hornbeak, Obion, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 63.
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- Claud C Summers, "United States 1950 Census"
- C C Summers, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- C C Summers in entry for James Summers and Margaret Hearst Ellington, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1890 · Woman's Suffrage
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Summer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: occupational or topographic name for someone who lived or worked at the house of someone named Somer (see Summer ).
Irish (Sligo): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Somacháin ‘descendant of Somachán’, a personal name meaning ‘soft, gentle, innocent’, due to confusion with samhradh ‘summer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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