Brief Life History of Flake McDaniel
When Flake McDaniel Keys was born on 29 November 1876, in Lawrence, Alabama, United States, his father, Charles McClanahan Keys, was 27 and his mother, Mary Leonorah McDaniel, was 20. He married Hattie Alma Curry on 26 November 1902, in Ellis, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 6, Runnels, Texas, United States in 1910 and Hollis, Harmon, Oklahoma, United States for about 15 years. He died on 3 January 1949, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States.
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- F M Keys, "United States Census, 1940"
- Flake McDaniel Keys, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Flake McDaniel Keys, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · Construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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.
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English, Irish and Scottish: variant of Keyes .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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