Brief Life History of Mary Joe
When Mary Joe Pickens was born on 22 December 1888, in Fannin, Texas, United States, her father, Joseph Andrew Pickens, was 27 and her mother, Cordova Haden, was 18. She married Dr. Robert Lee Watt Sr. about 1910. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas, United States for about 20 years and Justice Precinct 1, Hardeman, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 27 July 1983, in Hardeman, Texas, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Quanah Memorial Park, Quanah, Hardeman, Texas, United States.
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- Mary J Pickens in household of Joe A Pickens, "United States Census, 1900"
- Mary Joe Watt, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary Joe Pickens in entry for Richard J Watt, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: variant of Picken .
Possibly also an altered form of French Picon .
History: General Andrew Pickens (1739–1817) of the American Revolution was a great grandson of Robert (Andrew) Pickens alias Robert (André) Picon, reportedly a Huguenot who in 1685 left France to avoid religious persecution and settled briefly in Scotland and finally in Northern Ireland. The name of this ancestor is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors, where he is said to have been born in France to André Picon, while some other sources claim he was a Scotsman who, having married a French Huguenot woman, lived in France until 1685.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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