Brief Life History of John Enoch
When John Enoch Jones was born on 21 March 1869, in Texas Township, Dent, Missouri, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson Jones, was 26 and his mother, Melissa Johns, was 24. He married Eva Jane Weber on 10 June 1893, in Salem, Dent, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Otero, Colorado, United States in 1935 and La Junta, Otero, Colorado, United States in 1940. He died on 23 October 1959, in La Junta, Bent, Colorado, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in La Junta, Otero, Colorado, United States.
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- John E Jones, "United States Census, 1940"
- John Enoch Jones, "Find A Grave Index"
- John E Jones in entry for Mr William Lafayette Jones, "Missouri, Phelps, Crawford, Dent, and Washington Counties, Obituaries, 1880-1990"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1870
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Pueblo, Colorado Territory, United States 1870: Bent, Colorado Territory, United States 1876: Bent, Colorado, United States 1889: Otero, Colorado, United States
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 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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