When Jeremiah Washington Jones was born on 23 December 1874, in Berryville, Carroll, Arkansas, United States, his father, Hiram Henry Jones, was 32 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth " Lizzie" Hale, was 36. He married Louvenia Elizabeth Osborne on 3 February 1895. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Polo Township, Carroll, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Polo, Carroll, Arkansas, United States in 1910. He died on 18 April 1917, in Berryville, Carroll, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Berryville, Carroll, Arkansas, 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.
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.
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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)’.
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