Brief Life History of Ellis I
When Ellis I Jones was born in June 1895, in Mississippi, United States, his father, Eugene Seymour Jones, was 27 and his mother, Laura Jane Bowlin, was 26. He married Rosa L Mitchell on 28 September 1918, in Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Beat 3, Amite, Mississippi, United States in 1940 and Hancock, Mississippi, United States in 1950. He died on 9 March 1956, at the age of 60, and was buried in Pearl River, Mississippi, United States.
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- Ellis Jones, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ellis Ivy Jones, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Ellis I Jones, "Find A Grave Index"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop
When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.
1912 · The Girl Scouts
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.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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