Brief Life History of Naomi Opal
When Naomi Opal Watkins was born on 12 February 1915, in Carrollton, Carroll, Georgia, United States, her father, Willie Watkins, was 27 and her mother, Ethel Bell Kelley, was 20. She married James W. Lee on 15 January 1931, in Franklin, Ohio, United States. She lived in Franklinton, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1950 and Madison, Ohio, United States in 2001. She died on 13 February 2001, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States.
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- Opal N Leftwich, "United States 1950 Census"
- Opal Lee, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Opal N Leftwich, "Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007"
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World Events (8)
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: variant of Watkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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