When Lula Ella Dalton was born on 10 July 1890, in Odessa, Lafayette, Missouri, United States, her father, William Fredrick Dalton, was 29 and her mother, Clara Josephine Martin, was 11. She married John Lucian Boone on 26 January 1910, in Johnson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Commissioner's Precinct 1, Hale, Texas, United States in 1940 and Hale, Texas, United States in 1950. She died on 4 February 1982, in Plainview, Hale, Texas, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Plainview Cemetery, Plainview, Hale, 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.
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English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Dalton in Westmorland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and Yorkshire, from Old English dæl ‘valley’ (see Dale ) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
History: The surname was taken to Ireland by English traders in the early 13th century .
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