Genealogy for
Wells Walker Mote
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Wells Walker Mote
11/8/1872 - 10/19/1961
(Shown at age 78)
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Wells Walker Mote was born on November 8, 1872 somewhere in Georgia and died on October 19, 1961 in Morgan, Calhoun County, Georgia. He lived to be 89 years old.
His parents were Emily A. Broach(5/1842-2/18/1924) and William A. Mote -marred Jan.22, 1863 in Whitfield,GA. Wells married Minnie Howard.
Children:
- William Mote
- Elvia Mote
- Georgia Mote
- John Allen Mote
- Judson Mote
- Sarah Lee "Eddie" Mote
- Effie Mae (5/14/1910 - Jan.1918)
- Venie Mae (2/13/1908 - May 1917)
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 | Census | 1/1/1880 | District 1123 GA (Calhoun County) | 7 yrs old | | #240 -Emily Mote (age 39),
Pat C. Mote (14),
Mollie L. Mote (12),
John M. Mote (7),
Willes Mote (6). All were born in GA, as were their parents. Emily is a widow. |
| Marriage | 12/10/1900 | GA (Calhoun County) | 28 yrs old | | Groom's Name: W. W. Mote,
Gender: Male,
Marriage Date: 10 Dec 1900,
Marriage Place: Calhoun, Georgia,
Bride's name: Minnie Howard,
Spouse Gender: Female |
| Census | 2/9/1920 | District 1123 GA (Calhoun County) | 47 yrs old | | #31-
Wells W. Mote (age 47),
Minnie Lee Mote (34),
Eddie Lee Mote (17),
Georgia M. Mote (15),
John Mote (14),
Judson Mote (7),
Elvie Lee Mote (4),
Joseph Mote (3),
border -Earnest Ansley (19) Wells' parents were born in GA. Minnie Lee states her father was born in NC and mother in AL. They rent their home.Wells is a farmer, Earnest works as a farm laborer.
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| Census | 1/1/1930 | Militia District 1123 GA (Calhoun County) | 57 yrs old | | 281, 287- Wells W. Mote (age 56),
Minnie Mote (44),
Eddie L. Mote (25),
Georgia Mote (23),
John A. Mote (20),
Judson Mote (17),
Elvie Mote (15),
Joseph Mote (13) &
Julia L. Turner 7). Minnie was 14 years old at marriage and Wells was 25. All were born in GA, as were their parents. |
| Census | 1/1/1940 | Morgan GA (Calhoun County) | 67 yrs old | | #144 -W. W. Mote (age 67),
Minnie Mote (57),
Eddie Mote (56),
Judson Mote (26),
Joseph Mote (24),
Elvie Mote Cobb (22),
granddaughter-June Mote Cobb(2),
border-J. C. Hussey (18),
border-Julia Lee Turner (18). All were born in GA |
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Wells Mote's life. These are only some of the major events that affected the life and times of
Wells, his family, and friends. For example, Wells is 3 years old when Tennessee enacts Jim Crow law.
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1875 |
Oconee County formed. |
| 33 |
1905 |
Crisp, Grady, Jenkins, Tift, Davis, Stephens, Toombs, Turner, and Ben Hill Counties formed. |
| 40 |
1912 |
Forsyth, Bleckley, and Wheeler Counties formed. |
| 42 |
1914 |
Barrow, Candler, Bacon, and Evans Counties are formed. |
| 45 |
1917 |
Atkinson and Treutlen Counties are formed. |
| 48 |
1920 |
Seminole, Lanier, Brantley, Long, and Lamar Counties are formed. |
| 52 |
1924 |
Peach County is formed. |
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| 5 |
1877 |
Edison invents the phonograph permitting music and voices to be recorded and replayed. |
| 7 |
1879 |
Edison invents the electric light bulb. |
| 17 |
1889 |
The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards |
| 23 |
1895 |
Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance. |
| 25 |
1897 |
First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph |
| 28 |
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. |
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1900 |
Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams" |
| 29 |
1901 |
First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent. |
| 30 |
1902 |
The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered. |
| 31 |
1903 |
Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk |
| 32 |
1904 |
The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming |
| 34 |
1906 |
Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes |
| 34 |
1906 |
The triode vacuum tube is invented |
| 34 |
1906 |
Electrons are discovered by Thomson |
| 40 |
1912 |
The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people. |
| 41 |
1913 |
Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant |
| 42 |
1914 |
The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed |
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1923 |
Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes |
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1923 |
Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id" |
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1924 |
Insecticides are used for the first time on crops |
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1926 |
Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket |
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1927 |
The first television transmission was announced in England |
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1928 |
Big bang theory was introduced |
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1936 |
The first regular television broadcast happens in England |
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1938 |
Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission |
| 74 |
1946 |
The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes |
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1947 |
Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor |
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1951 |
The first color television is introduced in the U.S. |
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1952 |
The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen. |
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1957 |
Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S. |
| 88 |
1960 |
The ruby laser was created by Maiman |
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1882 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison creates the first large power station in New York City, making it the first place in America to have electricity. |
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1885 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen. |
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1908 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile |
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1912 |
White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out. |
| 41 |
1913 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures |
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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. |
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1919 |
NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty. |
| 66 |
1938 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic. |
| 67 |
1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
| 69 |
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. |
| 78 |
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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1955 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL. |
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1960 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public |
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1875 |
Tennessee enacts Jim Crow law. |
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1876 |
The National League of Baseball is founded |
| 37 |
1909 |
The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP) |
| 38 |
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. |
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1927 |
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. |
| 57 |
1929 |
Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October |
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1930 |
Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states. |
| 60 |
1932 |
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered. |
| 61 |
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! |
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1934 |
Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize. |
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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. |
| 63 |
1935 |
Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time. |
| 67 |
1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
| 71 |
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. |
| 72 |
1944 |
On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day") |
| 73 |
1945 |
President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. |
| 82 |
1954 |
The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency. |
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1909 |
The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe |
| 42 |
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. |
| 45 |
1917 |
Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes. |
| 47 |
1919 |
The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I. |
| 48 |
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. |
| 66 |
1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
| 67 |
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. |
| 73 |
1945 |
World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
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Born on December 15, 1885 and died on July 28, 1971
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The Children of Wells Walker Mote
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40 years old
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William 'Bill' M. Mote
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia on July 6, 1900 and died in Calhoun County, Georgia on September 28, 1958. He was 58 years old.
He went by "Bill". He married Linda "Lindie" Jane Phipps ( 11/5/1903 - 9/4/1985)
child: Billy Waymon “Jack” Mote....
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48 years old
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Sarah 'Eddie' Lee Mote
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia about 1902 and died in Morgan, Calhoun County, Georgia about 1986. She was about 84 years old.
She never married and was called Aunt Eddie....
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41 years old
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Georgia Myrtle Mote
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia on June 24, 1904 and died in Muscogee Co., Georgia on April 4, 1990. She was 85 years old.
She married Robert Lee Gilley....
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John Allen Mote
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia on August 6, 1906 and died in Calhoun Co., Georgia on May 4, 1978. He was about 71 years old.
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Judson Mote
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia about 1913 and died in an unknown location about 2000. He was about 87 years old.
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Elvie Lee Mote
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia on December 31, 1914 and died in Calhoun County, Georgia on November 4, 2004. She was 89 years old.
She married George Cobb(1909 -1978)
Children:
Ruby June Cobb
Myrtle Ann Cobb Robbins (8/ 21/ 1943- 12/16/2005)...
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Joseph Mote
Born in Calhoun County, Georgia about 1917 and died in an unknown location about 2000. He was about 83 years old.
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