Brief Life History of Virgil Lester
When Virgil Lester Jones was born on 28 November 1894, in Iowa, United States, his father, William Smith Jones, was 37 and his mother, Martha Rebecca Ragsdale, was 38. He married Fannie Jewell May Jones on 8 August 1915, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Greene Township, Polk, Missouri, United States in 1900. He died on 23 March 1963, in Fillmore, Ventura, California, United States, at the age of 68.
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- Virgil L Jones, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Virgil Lester Jones - birth-name: Virgil Lester Jones
- Virgie Jones, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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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.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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