Brief Life History of Verna Faye
When Verna Faye Wingate was born on 4 November 1893, in Atchison, Missouri, United States, her father, Elijah Burton Wingate, was 34 and her mother, Charity Lucida Cox, was 35. She married Henry Ferdinand "Fritz" Jaeckel on 25 May 1918, in Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Buchanan Township, Atchison, Missouri, United States for about 40 years and Montana, United States in 1979. She died on 9 May 1979, in Helena, Lewis and Clark, Montana, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Hamburg, Fremont, Iowa, United States.
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- Verna F Jaeckel in household of Hinery F Jaeckel, "United States Census, 1930"
- Verna Faye Jaeckel, "Montana, County Births and Deaths, 1840-2004"
- Fae Wingate, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
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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.
1899
Historical Boundaries 1899: Lewis and Clark, Montana, United States
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old English wind‐geat ‘windy gap, wind-swept pass’ (literally ‘wind-gate’), such as Wingate (Devon, Durham), Wingates (Lancashire), and Winnats (Derbyshire).
History: Charles Wyngate (born 1613) came to VA in 1635. John Wingate (born 1636) came to Dover, NH, c. 1658. — The British general Orde Wingate (1903–44) was from a well-known Stirlingshire family in Scotland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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