When William Timley Yoakum was born on 8 November 1877, in Maries, Missouri, United States, his father, Jesse Franklin Yoakum, was 35 and his mother, Martha Clarinda Morrow, was 32. He married Sarah Ellen Jones on 4 July 1897, in Miller, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Richwoods Township, Miller, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Miller Township, Maries, Missouri, United States for about 30 years. He died on 23 June 1949, in Dixon, Pulaski, Missouri, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Seaton Cemetery, Miller Township, Maries, Missouri, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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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