1Nelda Breazeale.
There is controversy about her real name. She said that her full name was Nocy Inez Petty but she never liked the name Nocy so she never included it in her name. No birth certificate exists to prove either way. (The courthouse burned down.) She was about 3 yrs old when her father died. She was delived by her grandmother, Louisa Jane Dixon. She was nickname "Tood" by her father. She said her daddy had trouble remembering her name so he called her "Toodie" and the name stuck. Shen she started school the teacher asked her name. She told the teacher it was "Toodie" and got several licks and was sent home to retrieve her mother. She didn't know she had another name.