Anna Belle Ratliff

Brief Life History of Anna Belle

When Anna Belle Ratliff was born on 22 October 1899, in Webster, Mississippi, United States, her father, William Madison Ratliff, was 24 and her mother, Mellissie Caroline Crick, was 28. She married Joe Synott Woodruff on 20 August 1916, in Montgomery, Mississippi, United States. She lived in Beat 2, Webster, Mississippi, United States in 1900 and Beat 3, Montgomery, Mississippi, United States for about 30 years. She died in June 1973, in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Parker Cemetery, Webster, Mississippi, United States.

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Joe Synott Woodruff
1896–
Anna Belle Ratliff
1899–1973
Marriage: 20 August 1916

Sources (9)

  • Annie Bell Pyron in household of William M Ratliffe, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Miss Anna Belle Rattiff, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979"
  • Anna Pyron, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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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.

1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop

When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

Name Meaning

English (Suffolk): habitational name from one or more of the places so named, such as Radcliffe (Lancashire), Radcliffe on Trent and Ratcliffe on Soar (both Nottinghamshire), Radclive (Buckinghamshire), Ratcliffe Culey and Ratcliffe on the Wreake (both Leicestershire), Ratclyffe in Clyst Hydon, Ratcliffes in Thorverton, and Ratcliffes in Broad Clyst (all Devon), Ratcliff in Stepney (Middlesex), and Rackley in Compton Bishop (Somerset). The placenames derive from Old English rēad ‘red’ + clif ‘cliff, bank, steep slope’ (see also Rutley ). A family of the name Radcliffe trace their descent from Sir Nicholas de Radclyffe. He is said to have been a knight who held the major of Radcliffe in Lancashire and served Roger de Poitou, Baron de Marsey in the 11th century.

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

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