Brief Life History of Johnnie Taylor
When Johnnie Taylor Walker was born on 8 May 1895, in Hickman, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Buchanan Walker SR, was 37 and her mother, Henrietta Bascomb Russell, was 29. She married Thomas Carrothers McEwen SR on 3 March 1920, in Hickman, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Civil District 7, Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and Belle Meade, Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1950. She died in May 1983, in Hermitage, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States.
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- Johnnie W McEwen, "United States Census, 1950"
- Johnnie T Walker, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
- Johnnie Taylor Walker McEwen, "Find a Grave Index"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
English (mainly North and Midlands) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English walker, Old English wealcere (an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’), ‘one who trampled cloth in a bath of lye or kneaded it, in order to strengthen it’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker . As a Scottish surname it has also been used as a translation of Gaelic Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the fuller’. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: The name was brought to North America from northern England and Scotland independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Walker came to Lynn, MA, c. 1630; Philip Walker was in Rehoboth, MA, in or before 1643. The surname was also established in VA before 1650; a Thomas Walker, born in 1715 in King and Queen County, VA, was a physician, soldier, and explorer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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