When William Starling Nuckolls was born on 21 March 1878, in Toone, Hardeman, Tennessee, United States, his father, Dr. John Walton Nuckolls, was 37 and his mother, Frances Rebecca Anderson, was 31. He married Grace Russell Williams on 6 April 1917, in Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Civil District 8, Hardeman, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. He died on 17 April 1940, in Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, 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.
The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889
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.
Variant of Nuckols .
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