When Bathia Avaline Purvis was born in 1863, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Alford Marion Purvis, was 35 and her mother, Huldah Bathia Avalina Jones, was 30. She married Charles A Meador in 1887, in Jasper, Mississippi, United States. She lived in Beat 5, Jasper, Mississippi, United States in 1870.
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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.
Scottish, English (Midlothian, Northumberland, and Durham; of Norman origin): status name or occupational name from an unrecorded Anglo-Norman French purveis, probably a derivative of purveoir ‘to foresee; to provide (supplies)’ and synonymous with Anglo-Norman French purveiour ‘steward who provides food and supplies to a royal or monastic household’.
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