When Florence Oleta Dawson was born on 11 August 1914, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Mark Dawson, was 41 and her mother, Frances Madora Bledsoe, was 32. She married Clarence Olin Hastings on 26 December 1934, in Nolan Land District, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Justice Precinct 4, Mills, Texas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 5, Nolan, Texas, United States in 1930. She died on 6 April 2002, in Roscoe, Nolan, Texas, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Roscoe, Nolan, Texas, United States.
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The Mississippi State Sanatorium is a hospital used for tuberculosis patients. This lasted from 1918 to the 1950s. The Sanatorium has now been turned into a museum.
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
Fredric F. Mellen was a geologist that was surveyed a clay and minerals project. While doing this he instead struck oil and started the oil industry in Mississippi.
English: patronymic meaning ‘son of Dawe’, from the Middle English personal name Daw(e) (see Daw 1 and 2), which is sometimes a pet form of David (see 2 below) but more generally of Rauf or Raw (i.e. Ralph ), of which Daw(e) is a rhyming form. Alternatively, the patronymic could mean ‘son of Daud(e)’, another Middle English pet form of Ralph evidently used interchangeably with Dawe. Dawson is one of the most numerous patronymics.
Scottish: patronymic, ‘son of Dawe’. In Scotland Dawe is a diminutive of David (compare 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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