When Ada Jones was born on 26 February 1890, in Nathan, Pike, Arkansas, United States, her father, George Washington Jones, was 34 and her mother, Catherine Elizabeth Reid "Reed", was 29. She married Burie O'Neal Norris on 21 July 1907, in Erath, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 5, Eastland, Texas, United States in 1940 and Erath, Texas, United States for about 1 years. She died on 23 April 1981, in Bluff Dale, Erath, Texas, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Bluff Dale, Erath, 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.
Satilla was the first Deepwater Steamship to arrive at the port of Houston. This accomplishment successfully established a steamboat service between Houston and New York City.
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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