Brief Life History of Janey Ethel
When Janey Ethel Wilkes was born on 21 May 1893, in Dawson, Navarro, Texas, United States, her father, John Terry Wilkes, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Younger, was 24. She married Grover Cleveland Hall on 5 May 1914, in Navarro, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 4, Navarro, Texas, United States for about 10 years and Purdon, Navarro, Texas, United States in 1920. She died on 10 August 1961, in Denton, Denton, Texas, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Denton, Texas, United States.
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- J Ethel Hall, "United States 1950 Census"
- Janey Ethel Wilkes, "Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981"
- Ethel Wilks, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
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1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
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.
1912 · The Girl Scouts
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.
Name Meaning
English (West Midlands): either a variant of Wilk , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or from the Middle English personal name Wilcus, an uncommon pet form of a personal name in Wil-. The suffix is a double diminutive -k + -us, the latter being used with Old English female names (compare Aldous ). So Wilcus may also be a pet form of an Old English female name such as Wilburg. Alternatively, it may have been used with Norman personal names of either gender, for example as a pet form of William . If Wilcus became an inherited surname it would quickly have become merged with Wilkes. Wilcus may also have been absorbed into Wildgoose .
Dutch and North German: patronymic from the personal name Wilke, a pet form of Will.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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