When Powell G. Bobo was born on 23 November 1883, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Alexander Campbell Bobo Sr, was 35 and his mother, Ellen M. Sweatt, was 35. He married Tinnia Mckeever on 2 May 1909, in Latimer, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Civil District 11, Wilson, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Degnan, Latimer, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. He died on 29 November 1917, in Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Wilburton City Cemetery, Wilburton, Latimer, Oklahoma, United States.
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The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889
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 French Baubeau or Beaubeau: nickname derived from Old French baube ‘stutterer, stammerer’, from Latin balbus ‘stammering’.
Americanized form of French Bourbeau .
Spanish: nickname from bobo ‘fool’, from Latin balbus ‘stammering’. This surname is also found in southern France (Pyrénées-Orientales).
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