Brief Life History of Eva Snow
When Eva Snow Powell was born on 15 January 1906, in Georgetown, South Carolina, United States, her father, Melvin Claude Powell, was 34 and her mother, Letha Ann Wise, was 31. She had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with James Liston Benton. She lived in United States in 1949 and Township 9 Mingo, Williamsburg, South Carolina, United States in 1950. She died on 28 September 1985, in Georgetown, Georgetown, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Piney Forest Cemetery, Andrews, Georgetown, South Carolina, United States.
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- Eva Benton, "United States 1950 Census"
- Eva Snow Powell Benton, "Find A Grave Index"
- Eva Powell Benton in entry for Mr James Durant Benton, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
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1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
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
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Hywel ‘son of Hywel’, a personal name meaning ‘eminent’ (see Howell ).
Irish: mainly of Welsh origin as in 1 above, but sometimes a surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Phóil ‘son of the servant of Saint Paul’ (see Guilfoyle ).
English: variant of Paul or Poole .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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