When James Lovic Pierce was born on 20 June 1887, in Copiah, Mississippi, United States, his father, Thaddeus Warsaw Pierce, was 49 and his mother, Mary C Taylor, was 40. He married Zula Kirby on 24 August 1910, in Pike, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Beat 4, Pike, Mississippi, United States in 1940 and McComb, Pike, Mississippi, United States for about 1 years. He died on 25 December 1976, in Pike, Missouri, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, McComb, Pike, Mississippi, United States.
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This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
English, Welsh, and Irish: from the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Piers, Peres, Peris, an Old French nominative of Pierre or Per, the French form of Peter . Pierce is especially frequent in northwestern Wales and Lancashire, while Pearce is the more common spelling in the rest of England. In Ireland Pierce and Pearse represent a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais ‘son of Piaras’, a Gaelicized form of Piers.
Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.
History: Franklin Pierce (1804–69), 14th president of the US, was born in Hillsborough, NH, on the New England frontier. His English ancestor Thomas Pierce emigrated to Charlestown, MA, in 1633/34.
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