Brief Life History of Jessie Carolyn
When Jessie Carolyn Wilcox was born on 18 November 1871, in The Crossroads, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, United States, her father, Clark Orson Wilcox, was 22 and her mother, Lydia Jane Dickinson, was 34. She married Emory Gifford on 24 January 1901, in Sherman, Sherman, Chautauqua, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Harmony, Chautauqua, New York, United States for about 5 years and Sherman, Sherman, Chautauqua, New York, United States for about 20 years. She died on 28 January 1958, in Willoughby, Lake, Ohio, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Sherman Cemetery, Sherman, Chautauqua, New York, United States.
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- Jessie C. Beeman in household of John Beeman, "United States Census, 1880"
- 1958 - Jessie Carolyn Wilcox Gifford, age 86, upon her Death, "Find A Grave Index"
- Jessie Gifford in household of Emory Gifford, "New York State Census, 1905"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1872 · The Amnesty Act
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Flintshire): variant of Wilcock , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is based on the pronunciation.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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