When James Jefferson Yell was born on 16 April 1874, in Coffee, Tennessee, United States, his father, Ellis Pleasant Yell, was 33 and his mother, Eliza Elzada Ward, was 28. He married Lillian Agnes Stephens on 5 July 1896, in Parker, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 22 September 1957, in Shamrock, Wheeler, Texas, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Roger Mills, Oklahoma, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1890: Wheeler, Texas, United States
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 (Essex and Surrey): apparently from a Middle English personal name Yell (a survival of the Old English G(i)ella, of uncertain meaning, originally suggested by Ekwall to explain the first element of the placename Yelling in Huntingdonshire).
Altered form of French Diel 2.
History: Some of the American bearers of the surname Yell are descendants of Charles Diel from France (see Diel ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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