Brief Life History of Samuel Mason
When Samuel Mason Wilson was born on 3 October 1872, in Arkansas, United States, his father, Jonathan J Wilson, was 53 and his mother, Mary Frances Frost, was 38. He married Mary Ellen Williams on 14 May 1895, in Galveston, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States in 1935 and Eason Township, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. He died on 3 January 1956, in Muldrow, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Blackjack, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Sam M Wilson in household of William L Gentry, "United States Census, 1940"
- Sam Wilson, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Samuel Mason Wilson, "Find A Grave Index"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
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.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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