When Edna Louisa Haws was born on 26 January 1895, in Marysvale, Piute, Utah, United States, her father, George Robert Haws, was 30 and her mother, Adaline Clarinda Hardy, was 28. She married Joseph Lester Smoot on 14 January 1912, in Junction, Piute, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Coyote, Garfield, Utah, United States in 1920 and Antimony, Garfield, Utah, United States in 1930. She died on 1 August 1982, in Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Antimony Cemetery, Antimony, Garfield, Utah, United States.
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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.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Possibly an altered form of Haas .
English (East Anglia): variant of Hawes .
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