When Orville O. Williams was born on 8 September 1875, in Pike, Illinois, United States, his father, John Turner Williams, was 41 and his mother, Margaret Elizabeth Walker, was 38. He married Grace E Grimes on 19 February 1898, in Pike, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Hamilton, Nebraska, United States in 1935 and City Election Precinct, Hamilton, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 8 May 1949, in Aurora, Hamilton, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Aurora, Hamilton, Nebraska, United States.
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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: variant of William , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America, this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages, such as Dutch Willems . Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
History: This surname was brought to North America from southern England and Wales independently by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, came to MA in 1630, but the clergyman was banished from the colony for his criticism of the Puritan government; he fled to RI and founded Providence.
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