When Bettie Florence Lance was born on 10 March 1898, in Frost, Navarro, Texas, United States, her father, Edward Palmer Lance, was 35 and her mother, Frances Alline Justice, was 31. She married Ernest Way Hyer on 21 November 1913, in Navarro, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Dobbin, Montgomery, Texas, United States in 1935 and Justice Precinct 2, Harris, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 29 December 1953, in Velasco, Freeport, Brazoria, Texas, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in West Columbia, Brazoria, Texas, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
English: from the ancient Germanic personal name Lanzo, originally a short form of various compound names with the first element land ‘land, territory’ (for example, Lambert ), but later used as an independent name. It was introduced to England by the Normans, for whom it was a popular name among the ruling classes, perhaps partly because of association with Old French lance ‘lance, spear’ (see 2 below).
French: metonymic occupational name for a soldier who carried a lance, or a nickname for a skilled fighter, from Old French lance ‘lance, spear’.
Americanized form of German Lanz and Lenz .
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