Brief Life History of Mary Inez
When Mary Inez Means was born in July 1890, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Samuel Oscar Means, was 28 and her mother, Ada Littleton Stevens, was 26. She married Walter Claybourne Adams in 1911, in Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Beat 3, Lee, Mississippi, United States in 1940 and Tupelo, Lee, Mississippi, United States in 1950. She died in March 1981, in Mississippi, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Tupelo, Lee, Mississippi, United States.
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- Mary I Adams, "United States 1950 Census"
- Inez Means Adams, "Find A Grave Index"
- Inez Means in entry for W C Adams, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979"
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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.
1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop
When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.
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.
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English: variant of Meen, with post-medieval excrescent -s. See Mean .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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