When Frances Etta “Fannie” Honea was born on 17 March 1872, in Rosston, Nevada, Arkansas, United States, her father, James Wilburn Honea, was 38 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann "Eliza" Ray, was 37. She married Matthew Preston Johnson on 6 January 1889, in Georgia Township, Nevada, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1920 and Supervisorial District 1, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1940. She died on 16 May 1954, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
George W. Sirrine, Charles I. Robson, Charles Crismon, and Francis M. Pomeroy broke ahead of the Mesa Company to determine the permanent location for the new settlers. They arrived to Ft. Utah in Arizona on December 1877. The remainder of the nine families of the Mesa Company arrived on February 14, 1878. The company moved five miles upstream to utilize an ancient canal. The townsite was known as Mesa City.
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.
Possibly an altered form of English Honey .
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