When Edward Columbus Marr was born on 4 May 1874, in DeKalb, Missouri, United States, his father, John Columbus Marr, was 25 and his mother, Martha Catherine Hankins, was 23. He married Emma Paralee Warthen on 29 October 1900, in Ryan, Jefferson, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Alfalfa Township, Tillman, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Justice Precinct 1, Erath, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 12 December 1948, in Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in West End Cemetery, Stephenville, Erath, Texas, United States.
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A new state constitution was passed in 1876, announcing the segregation of schools.
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Scottish: habitational name from the district of Mar in Aberdeenshire, an ancient tribal name probably based on a Brittonic personal name Marsos. There may have been confusion with Mair 2.
English: habitational name from one or other of various places called from Old Norse marr ‘fen, marsh’, such as Marr, High and Low Marr in Wheldrake, and The Marrs in Swine (all Yorkshire).
German: from the ancient Germanic personal name Marro.
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