When Hattie Yoakum was born in October 1885, in Speedwell, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, her father, George Melvin Yoakum, was 38 and her mother, Louisa Welsh, was 35. She married Hugh Patton Carr about 1904, in Speedwell, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Civil District 6, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 4 November 1915, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Fincastle, Campbell, Tennessee, United States.
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The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
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.
Americanized form of German Jochem or Joachim . This surname is also found among African Americans. Compare Yoachum , Yoakam , Yocum , Yokem , and Yokum .
History: The majority of the Yoakums trace their origin to Johann Matthäus Yoakum or Jochem (possibly Joachim), born c. 1698 in Germany, died 1783 in KY or VA. His descendants bear various forms of the surname, including Yoachum, Yocom, Yocum, Yokem, Yokom, and Yokum. However, several of these (and of other possible) forms are also borne by the descendants of various other immigrants from Germany.
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