When Sarah Ellen Jones was born on 18 January 1870, in Miller, Missouri, United States, her father, William Marshall Jones, was 20 and her mother, Fetna Slawson, was 19. She married William Timley Yoakum on 4 July 1897, in Miller, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Richwoods Township, Miller, Missouri, United States for about 20 years and Miller Township, Maries, Missouri, United States for about 30 years. She died on 26 January 1954, in Maries, Missouri, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Miller Township, Maries, Missouri, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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