Georgina Sands

Femaleabout 1880–1950

Brief Life History of Georgina

Georgina Sands was born about 1880, in Key West, Monroe, Florida, United States. She married Benjamin Bethel in 1898, in Key West, Monroe, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died in 1950, at the age of 71.

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Benjamin Bethel
1880–1948
Georgina Sands
1880–1950
Marriage: 1898
Ruby Dale Bethel
1903–

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  • Georgie Or Georgia Bethel in entry for Howard W. Burke and Ruby Bethel, "Florida, County Marriages, 1830-1957"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1898Key West, Monroe, Florida, United States
  • Children (1)

    World Events (8)

    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

    Age 1

    Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

    1887 · Eatonville is Incorporated

    Age 7

    On August 15, 1887, the town of Eatonville was incorporated into Orange County, Florida. The town is significant for being one of the first all-black, self-governed municipalities in the country.

    1900 · Gold for Cash!

    Age 20

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

    Name Meaning

    English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English sandes ‘sands’, for someone who lived at or near a sandy place, or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Sands in Carlisle (Cumberland) or Sands Cottages in West Hoathly (Sussex). See Sand , of which Sands may sometimes be a plural form or a variant, with excrescent -s. Compare also Sandes and Sandys .

    History: Comfort Sands, a revolutionary patriot born in 1748 at what is now Sands’ Point, Long Island, NY, was descended from James Sand(y)s (1622–95), who emigrated from Reading, Berkshire, England, to Plymouth, MA, and followed Anne Hutchinson to Westchester County, NY, and subsequently RI. In 1661 he settled on Block Island, RI.

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

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