When Clementine Elizabeth Vann was born on 16 February 1892, in Blanket Springs, Mills, Texas, United States, her father, William Thomas Vann, was 35 and her mother, Frances Artelia Dudley, was 29. She married George Newton Burkett on 7 January 1906, in Valley, Guadalupe, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 10 daughters. She lived in Mills, Texas, United States for about 5 years and Justice Precinct 4, Comanche, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 10 April 1971, in Comanche, Comanche, Texas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Comanche, Comanche, 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.
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
English (Leicestershire and Warwickshire):
topographic name for someone who lived by a fen or marsh, from Middle English fan(ne), a dialect variant in southeastern England of fen(ne) ‘marsh, fen’ (see also Fenn ). The surname may also be topographic, for someone who lived in a marshy place or from a place so named, such as Vann in Hambledon (Surrey), and Vann in Ockley (Surrey).
perhaps a nickname from Middle English fan(ne), vanne ‘basket or fan for winnowing’, for someone who made or used such a utensil.
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