Genealogy for
Edith Emmaline Streetman
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Edith Emmaline Streetman
3/29/1899 - 5/13/1951
(Shown at age 17)
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Edith Emmaline Streetman was born on March 29, 1899 in Jakin, Georgia and died on May 13, 1951 in Blountstown, Florida. She lived to be 52 years old.
Married 11/28/1915 | 
 | Census | 4/29/1910 | Shiloah FL (Calhoun County) | 11 yrs old | | Recorded as family #205: E. S. Streetman (age 31), Anna (wife, age 32), Lillian (daughter, age 12), Emily (daughter, age 11), William (son, age 9), Myrtis (daughter, age 5). All were born in Georgia as were their parents. E. S. is a general farmer. E. S. and Anna were married when both were 15 years old. |
| Census | 4/7/1930 | Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) | 31 yrs old | | Recorded as family #140: Ellis J. Halley (age 38), Edith (wife, age 31) and Myrtice E. (daughter, age 8). Ellis was 24 and Edith was 17 the first time they married. Edith and her parents were born in GA and Ellis and Myrtice were born in FL. They rent their current home and pay $20 a month. Ellis is a guard working at the convict camps and Edith is a manager working in a retail grocer store. Ellis is not a veteran. |
| Census | 1/1/1945 | Precinct 1 FL (Calhoun County) | 45 yrs old | page 35 - Ellis Halley (53)FL & Edith Emaline Halley (46)GA. He has a 9th gr. and she has an 11th gr. education. He works a night marshal and she is a school lunch room manger.  |
| Graveyard/Tombstone | 3/31/1951 | Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) | 52 yrs old | | Boggs Cemetery - Edith E. STREETMAN HALLEY -
- 29 Mar 1899 to
31 May 1951
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| Newspaper | 6/1/1951 | Panama City FL (Bay County) | 52 yrs old | | BLOUNTSTOWN - Funeral services for Mrs. Ellis Holley, 52, who died here at 5AM Thursday, will be held Saturday at 10AM at the Pentecostal Holiness church in Blountstown. |
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| 7 |
1906 |
An attempt to drain the Everglades and convert it to farmland begins. |
| 18 |
1917 |
Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction. |
| 29 |
1928 |
The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy. |
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| 6 |
1905 |
Crisp, Grady, Jenkins, Tift, Davis, Stephens, Toombs, Turner, and Ben Hill Counties formed. |
| 13 |
1912 |
Forsyth, Bleckley, and Wheeler Counties formed. |
| 15 |
1914 |
Barrow, Candler, Bacon, and Evans Counties are formed. |
| 18 |
1917 |
Atkinson and Treutlen Counties are formed. |
| 21 |
1920 |
Seminole, Lanier, Brantley, Long, and Lamar Counties are formed. |
| 25 |
1924 |
Peach County is formed. |
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| 1 |
1900 |
Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams" |
| 1 |
1900 |
The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control. |
| 2 |
1901 |
First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent. |
| 3 |
1902 |
The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered. |
| 4 |
1903 |
Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk |
| 5 |
1904 |
The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming |
| 7 |
1906 |
Electrons are discovered by Thomson |
| 7 |
1906 |
Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes |
| 7 |
1906 |
The triode vacuum tube is invented |
| 13 |
1912 |
The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people. |
| 14 |
1913 |
Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant |
| 15 |
1914 |
The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed |
| 24 |
1923 |
Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes |
| 24 |
1923 |
Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id" |
| 25 |
1924 |
Insecticides are used for the first time on crops |
| 27 |
1926 |
Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket |
| 28 |
1927 |
The first television transmission was announced in England |
| 29 |
1928 |
Big bang theory was introduced |
| 37 |
1936 |
The first regular television broadcast happens in England |
| 39 |
1938 |
Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission |
| 47 |
1946 |
The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes |
| 48 |
1947 |
Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor |
| 52 |
1951 |
The first color television is introduced in the U.S. |
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| 9 |
1908 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile |
| 13 |
1912 |
White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out. |
| 14 |
1913 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures |
| 18 |
1917 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism. |
| 20 |
1919 |
NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty. |
| 39 |
1938 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic. |
| 40 |
1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
| 42 |
1941 |
NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers. |
| 51 |
1950 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later. |
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| 10 |
1909 |
The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP) |
| 11 |
1910 |
Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area. |
| 28 |
1927 |
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. |
| 30 |
1929 |
Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October |
| 31 |
1930 |
Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states. |
| 33 |
1932 |
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered. |
| 34 |
1933 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone! |
| 35 |
1934 |
Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains. |
| 35 |
1934 |
Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize. |
| 36 |
1935 |
Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time. |
| 40 |
1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
| 44 |
1943 |
Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit. |
| 45 |
1944 |
On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day") |
| 46 |
1945 |
President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. |
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| 10 |
1909 |
The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe |
| 15 |
1914 |
World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days. |
| 18 |
1917 |
Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes. |
| 20 |
1919 |
The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I. |
| 21 |
1920 |
Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made. |
| 39 |
1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
| 40 |
1939 |
Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun. |
| 46 |
1945 |
World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
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 Edith Streetman
 Ellis and Edith Halley
 Eudessa and Edith |
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Marriages
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 | James Halley
Born on February 22, 1892 and died on July 16, 1968.
They were married 11/28/1915.
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The Children of Edith Emmaline Streetman
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infant Halley
Born in Blountstown, Florida on November 17, 1916 and died in Blountstown, Florida on November 17, 1916. This child was stillborn.
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23 years old
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Myrtice Eudessa Halley
Born in Chattahoochee, Florida on September 5, 1921 and died in Mobile, Alabama on January 25, 1999. She was 77 years old.
She went by Eudessa....
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