When Amanda Louisa Flint was born on 5 October 1871, in Black Oak, Caldwell, Missouri, United States, her father, John Lewis Flint, was 29 and her mother, Mary Louisa Kayser, was 28. She married David Clinton Kellems on 5 October 1891, in Lane, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Redwood Judicial Township, Sonoma, California, United States in 1880 and Montgomery, Geary, Kansas, United States in 1895. Her occupation is listed as teacher in Oregon, United States. She died on 22 December 1949, in Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, 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 and German: topographic name for someone who lived near a significant outcrop of flint (from Old and Middle English, Low German flint), or a nickname for a hard-hearted or physically tough individual, metaphorically as hard as flint.
Welsh: habitational name from Flint in Clwyd, which gave its name to the old county of Flintshire.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Flinte ‘shotgun’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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