When Drusilla Lappin was born on 16 February 1890, in Liberal, Seward, Kansas, United States, her father, James Lemuel Lappin, was 31 and her mother, Sarah Alice Martz, was 27. She married John Day Sitton on 21 June 1908, in Pike, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Albany Election Precinct 9, Linn, Oregon, United States in 1940 and Syracuse, Linn, Oregon, United States in 1950. She died on 9 December 1964, in Linn, Linn, Oregon, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Willamette Memorial Park, Albany, Linn, Oregon, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1908: Hood River, Oregon, United States
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Irish: from Ó Lapáin ‘descendant of Lapán’, perhaps a nickname from lapán ‘little fist’. Sometimes Anglicized as Delap or Delapp in Ireland.
English: from the Middle English personal name Lapin, possibly a nickname for a timid person, from Old French lapin ‘rabbit’, or it may be a derivative of Old English læppa ‘lap (of a garment)’, ‘sleeve’, ‘small strip of cloth or hide’, ‘person's lap or bosom’, ‘flap of flesh’, ‘piece of land at the edge of an estate’, but what sense the derived term might have when used as a surname is unclear.
Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Lapin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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