Brief Life History of Mary Lucille
When Mary Lucille Thayer was born on 8 July 1894, in Tuscola, Douglas, Illinois, United States, her father, Orlando J. Thayer, was 41 and her mother, Amanda Ellen Hunter, was 32. She married Frank Loyal Sexton in 1919, in Champaign, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Tuscola Township, Douglas, Illinois, United States in 1940 and Crawfordsville, Union Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States in 1950. She died in 1985, at the age of 91, and was buried in Tuscola, Douglas, Illinois, United States.
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- Lucile Sexton, "United States 1950 Census"
- Mary Lucile Thayer, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Mary Lucille Thayer Sexton, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1910 · Boy Scouts of America
When W. D. Boyce was visiting London, he encountered a boy that helped him find his destination. The boy refused the tip that Boyce offered to him and told him that he was just doing his daily good turn. Being inspired, Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America to help teach young men how to have an attitude of service always. Since its foundation, The Boy Scouts of America has become one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States. Around 110 million people have been participants at some time in their life. The BSA was established to help young people make better choices in life and showing selflessness by serving the community.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
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.
Name Meaning
English (Gloucestershire and Somerset): from Middle English the eir ‘the heir’ with fused definite article. See Ayer .
History: Sylvanus Thayer (1785–1872), military engineer, an early superintendant of the US Military Academy at West Point, was born in Braintree, MA, into a family of English origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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