When Dorinda Ellen Powers was born on 17 November 1868, in Warsaw, Benton, Missouri, United States, her father, Edward Rufus Powers, was 38 and her mother, Ann Elizabeth Wright, was 32. She married William Andrew Foster on 30 October 1895, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Fort Scott, Bourbon, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Wyandotte, Kansas, United States in 1910. She died on 16 February 1960, in Denver, Colorado, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Craig, Moffat, Colorado, United States.
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The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.
Historical Boundaries: 1889: Routt, Colorado, United States 1911: Moffat, Colorado, United States
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 (Warwickshire and Lancashire): variant of Power , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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