Letha Lavella Worsham

Brief Life History of Letha Lavella

When Letha Lavella Worsham was born on 19 July 1923, in Henderson, Chester, Tennessee, United States, her father, Luther Otis Worsham, was 36 and her mother, Lydia M "Liddie" Holder, was 31. She had at least 1 son with James Vester McLeod Jr. She died on 17 September 1993, in Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 70.

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Family Time Line

James Vester McLeod Jr
1922–2000
Letha Lavella Worsham
1923–1993
James Vernon McLeod
1959–1995

Sources (4)

  • Letha Lavella Worsham, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
  • Letha Lavella Worsham McLeod, "Find a Grave Index"
  • Letha Lavellar McLeod, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

World Events (8)

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1931 · The Parthenon is Built

In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built  giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for. 

1942 · The Japanese American internment

Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from either of two places called Worsham, in Oxfordshire and Sussex. The first is named from the Old English personal name Wulfmǣr + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’; the second is from an unattested Old English personal name Wyrtel + .

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

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