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Eddie “Peg” or “Peg Leg” Lightfoot was born Edward Rodgers on January 14, 1895, in Memphis, Tennessee to a Victoria Dickerson (b.1878) and an unnamed father. . Victoria married a Burl Lightfoot (b.1868) sometime prior to 1900 and Burl appears to have adopted Edward between 1900 and 1910 as his legal name changed to “Eddie Lightfoot” in that year's census (which also states an ...
Nanny Cay is an island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. It is made up of three cays originally known as Big Cay, Little Cay and Miss Peggy Cay. [1] In the 1970s these were consolidated into a single land mass for a marina and resort development. It is connected to Tortola by a short bridge. A marina, hotel, restaurants ...
Richard Joseph "Peg Leg" Lonergan (January 16, 1900 - December 26, 1925) was an American underworld figure and labor racketeer. He was a high-ranking member and the final leader of the White Hand Gang .
A Peg leg is an artificial leg. Pegleg, Peg Leg or Peg-Leg may also refer to: Richard Lonergan (1900–1925), American mobster and labor racketeer nicknamed "Peg Leg" Joe "Pegleg" Morgan (1929–1993), first non-Hispanic member of the Mexican Mafia, an American criminal organization; Thomas L. Smith (1801–1866), American mountain man
Even as vendors touted advantages of more complicated prostheses over simple peg legs, [3] according to a contemporary surgeon, many patients found a peg leg more comfortable for walking. [4] According to medical reports, some amputees were able to adjust to the use of a peg leg so well that they could walk 10, or even 30, miles in one day. [5]
Peg Leg (1977) A Song for You (1978) 1 + 3 (1978) A Song for You is an album by bassist Ron Carter recorded at Van Gelder Studio in 1978 and released on the Milestone ...
Born as Rick Bennett in 1969, Bennett was born without an ankle in his left leg, and as a result it was amputated when he was 13 months old. [1] He went by the nickname Pegleg throughout his childhood, eventually making the decision to make it his legal name in 2016. [8] [9] Bennett resides in St Agnes in Cornwall, England. [2]
Peg Leg Bates backstage after performing at the Denver Muscular Dystrophy Marathon, December 1954. At 20, Bates was dancing on Broadway. [2] In the early 1940s, at the Paradise Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey, his "Jet Plane" finale, in which he leaped over the stage, landed on his wooden leg, and then executed a series of backward hops accompanied by trumpet blasts from the band, saw his ...