When Agnes Fowler Ashby was born on 8 August 1894, in Fauquier Springs, Fauquier, Virginia, United States, her father, Joseph Edward Ashby, was 36 and her mother, Martha "Mattie" Agnes Moffett, was 29. She married Joseph Allen Beach on 27 March 1912, in Fauquier, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Jeffersonton, Culpeper, Virginia, United States in 1930 and Stevensburg District, Culpeper, Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 1 April 1990, in Polk, Florida, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Warrenton, Fauquier, Virginia, 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.
Florida played a critical role during the Spanish-American War. The port of Tampa saw the arrival of over 30,000 troops; this traffic resulted in the small town experiencing massive growth and becoming a city. Cuban-Americans across the state also helped with raising money and support for the war.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Ashby, from Old Norse askr ‘ash’ (or in one instance possibly from the Old Norse personal name Aski) + bȳ ‘farm’.
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