Brief Life History of Lillie Dee
When Lillie Dee Fox was born on 2 August 1914, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Jefferson Davis Fox, was 25 and her mother, Myrtle Lee Flatt, was 29. She married Marvin S Willett on 11 September 1936. She lived in Jackson Township, Montgomery, Ohio, United States in 1950 and Eaton, Preble, Ohio, United States in 2002. She died on 28 August 2002, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in New Lebanon, Jackson Township, Montgomery, Ohio, United States.
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- Lellie Willett, "United States 1950 Census"
- Lillie Fox, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Lillie Dee Willett, "Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007"
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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.
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.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from a word denoting the animal (Middle English, Old English fox), widely used to denote a sly or cunning individual. It was also used for someone with red hair. In England this surname absorbed some early examples of surnames derived from the ancient Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks .
Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney ).
Irish: also adopted for Ó Catharnaigh, see Kearney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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