When Lillie L Wells was born on 9 August 1892, in Fort Payne, DeKalb, Alabama, United States, her father, Henry Marion Wells, was 28 and her mother, Rebecca Ann Warren, was 22. She married Lemuel Otto Sparks on 26 December 1911, in Ellis, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 1, Bee, Texas, United States in 1940 and Nueces Land District, Texas, United States in 1950. She died on 10 June 1967, in Bowie, Montague, Texas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Stoneburg, Montague, Texas, United States.
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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.
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.
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
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