When Lilley Melvina Hancock was born in July 1893, in Missouri, United States, her father, Riley Segal Hancock, was 26 and her mother, Manary Emaline Stringer, was 25. She married Cleller Mooney on 11 April 1917. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Current Township, Texas, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Lynch Township, Texas, Missouri, United States in 1920. She died on 23 May 1925, at the age of 31.
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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.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
English: from the Middle English personal name Hann + the hypocoristic suffix -cok, which was commonly added to personal names (see Cocke ).
Dutch: from Middle Dutch hanecoc ‘winkle, periwinkle’ (a type of shellfish), probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered and sold shellfish.
History: Thomas Hancock, the uncle of Declaration of Independence signatory John Hancock (1736/7–93), was among the foremost of 18th-century American businessmen. He was a descendant of Nathaniel Hancock, who was known to have been in Cambridge, MA, as early as 1634. Born in Braintree, MA, John Hancock was president of the Second Continental Congress and the first governor of the state of MA.
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