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Wanda Jean Allen (August 17, 1959 – January 11, 2001) was a murderer who was sentenced to death in 1989 for the murder of Gloria Jean Leathers, 29, her longtime girlfriend. Allen was the first black woman to be executed in the United States since 1954. [ 1 ]
Jasper W. Gilbert (1812–1899), justice of the New York Supreme Court Roberta Guaspari , violinist, educator, and feminist Alex Haley (1921–1992), author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family , 1963–1968 [ 1 ]
The district includes ten contributing buildings, two contributing structures and two contributing objects. Located within the district are the former Rome City Hall, U.S. Post Office, Oneida County Courthouse and St. Peter's Catholic Church. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1]
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Wanda and Alex privately tied the knot in October of 2008, just one month before the Friendsgiving star publicly came out as gay at a same-sex marriage rally in Las Vegas. Over 15 years later ...
Riggs was born Christina Marie Thomas in Lawton, Oklahoma, and she grew up in Oklahoma City.She said she was sexually abused as a child, and she began using alcohol, tobacco and marijuana by the age of 14.
After moving to New York she became a model and her image was used to promote Chesterfield cigarettes. [2] In 1938, McKay represented Trans World Airlines, for which she worked as a hostess, in a beauty competition at the Birmingham Air Show. [1] She won, being voted "Miss American Aviation". [2]