When Francis Serena Horton was born in 1868, in Missouri, United States, her father, John William Horton, was 25 and her mother, Martha Isabella Lowe, was 19. She had at least 3 sons and 5 daughters with Robert Walter Patton. She lived in Colville, Benton, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Cave Springs, Benton, Arkansas, United States in 1930. She died in 1954, in Arkansas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Elm Springs Cemetery, Elm Springs, Washington, Arkansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries - 1879: Benton, Arkansas, United States
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.
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 (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as those in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English horh or horu ‘dirt, filth’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some may have different origins, including Horton in Gloucestershire, which may derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + tūn.
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