Brief Life History of Coy Hillard
When Coy Hillard Keen was born on 18 July 1894, in Rudd, Carroll, Arkansas, United States, his father, Reverend Thomas Ransom Keen, was 28 and his mother, Martha Leanna McClain, was 27. He married Mae Pearl Lillie Gage on 15 December 1912, in United States. He lived in Liberty Township, Carroll, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Omega Township, Carroll, Arkansas, United States for about 30 years. He died on 26 December 1973, in Carroll, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Gobbler, Carroll, Arkansas, United States.
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- C H Keen, "United States Census, 1940"
- Coy Keen, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Coy H Keen, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1898
Historical Boundaries - 1898: Carroll, Arkansas, 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: from the Middle English personal name Kene, a short form of Old English names formed with either Cēn- (from cēn ‘keen’) or Cyne- (from cyne-, combining form of cynn ‘kin, family’).
English: nickname from Middle English kene ‘wise, brave, proud, keen’.
Dutch and North German: from a pet form of the personal name Christianus (see Christian ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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