When Joel Washington Starkey was born on 18 August 1869, in Mulberry, Crawford, Arkansas, United States, his father, John Starkey, was 25 and his mother, Martha Ann Polk, was 21. He married Amanda Viola Edgmon on 5 July 1896, in Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Floyd, Floyd, Texas, United States in 1950. He died on 8 November 1952, in Lockney, Floyd, Texas, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Lockney, Floyd, Texas, United States.
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Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
English: habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, probably in Lancashire. This English surname has been established in Ireland (Dublin) since the 14th century.
English: variant of Starkin, itself perhaps from an unrecorded Old French personal name Starkin, a pet form of ancient Germanic names beginning in Stark- ‘strong’, such as Starc(w)ulf and Starcher, both of which appear in 1086 as names of Domesday Book tenants in East Anglia: Starcolf (Norfolk) and Starker (Suffolk). However, no medieval evidence for Starkin as a personal name or a surname has been found. An alternative possibility is a derivation from an unrecorded Middle English starking ‘strong one’ (see Stark ), but in the absence of any medieval evidence this is highly conjectural.
Altered form of German Starke , written thus to preserve the second syllable.
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