Brief Life History of Carrie May "Annie"
When Carrie May "Annie" Crow was born on 14 January 1892, in Wilmer, Dallas, Texas, United States, her father, John Cornelius Crow, was 22 and her mother, Maggie Lou Ellen Steely, was 18. She married Henry Cochran Seely Sr. about 1908, in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States in 1935 and Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 30 December 1987, in Granbury, Hood, Texas, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States.
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- Carrie Seely, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Carrie May "Annie" Crow - Published information: birth: 14 January 1892; Wilmer, Dallas, Texas, United States
- Carrie Mae Crow in entry for Alvis Franklin Seely, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
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1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
Irish, Manx, and English: variant of Crowe .
Native American: translation into English (and shortening) of a personal name based on a word, such as Lakota or Dakota Sioux kaŋgi, meaning ‘crow’. The cultural significance of the crow to Native Americans is reflected in their traditional personal names, some of which were adopted as surnames (translated into English), e.g. Big Crow (see Bigcrow ) and Two Crow (see Twocrow ). See also Bird 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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