When John Henry Mayfield was born on 8 March 1871, in Missouri, United States, his father, John Micajah Mayfield, was 44 and his mother, Nancy Evaline Layman, was 39. He married Josephine Caroline Gestring on 25 November 1901, in Laclede, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Washington Township, Laclede, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Union Township, Laclede, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died on 28 March 1944, in Caffeyville, Laclede, Missouri, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Lonesome Hill Cemetery, Phillipsburg Township, Laclede, Missouri, United States.
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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.
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.
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.
English: habitational name from a place so named in Staffordshire. The placename derives from Old English mæthel ‘speech, assembly, meeting place’ + feld ‘open country’. Though it is possible that the surname could also be a habitational name from Mayfield in Sussex, this is unlikely due to the geographical distribution of early bearers.
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