Brief Life History of John Tobe
When John Tobe Joy was born on 10 February 1898, in Texas, United States, his father, Harvey Edward Joy, was 34 and his mother, Linelle Taylor, was 24. He married Mabel Mae Menges in Arizona, United States. He lived in Young, Gila, Arizona, United States for about 10 years and Payson, Gila, Arizona, United States in 1950. He died on 6 January 1954, in Arizona, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Globe, Gila, Arizona, United States.
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- John T Joy, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Tob Joy - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: John Tob Joy
- John Tob Joy, "Arizona, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English: from Joie, a French female personal name or occasionally from its male equivalent, given especially since the Reformation as an omen or well-wishing name. In some cases the name may also be a nickname for a person of a cheerful disposition, from Middle English joie ‘joy’.
History: Thomas Joy (c. 1610–78), an architect and builder born probably in Hingham, Norfolk, England, appears in land records in Boston, MA, in 1636. He had a considerable influence on Boston architecture.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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