Fredda Ellington

Brief Life History of Fredda

When Fredda Ellington was born on 25 July 1898, in Bells, Crockett, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Edward "Ned" Ellington, was 55 and her mother, Ida May Williams, was 39. She married Roy Lusker Hawkins on 24 December 1933, in Madison, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Civil District 1, Crockett, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. She died on 5 July 2003, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 104, and was buried in Friendship, Crockett, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Roy Lusker Hawkins
1904–1952
Fredda Ellington
1898–2003
Marriage: 24 December 1933
Charles Newton Lovelace
1926–1990

Sources (12)

  • Freddie Elington in household of James Elington, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Fredda Ellington - Published information: birth-name: Fredda Ellington
  • Freddie Ellington, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"

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World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome

A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.

1927

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

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of several places called Ellington (Hampshire, Kent, North Yorkshire, and Northumberland), named either from Old English æl, ēl ‘eel’ or from the Old English personal name Ella or Eli (a short form of various compound names with the first element ælf ‘elf’) + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead’. However, Ellington in Kent has its first element from the Old English byname Ealda ‘old’.

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

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