Brief Life History of Clarissa Matilda
When Clarissa Matilda Lynn was born on 20 June 1877, in Arkansas, United States, her father, James Pickering Lynn, was 30 and her mother, Rachael Matilda Hammett, was 31. She married Thomas Asbury Speak on 29 December 1907, in Izard, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Union Township, Izard, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Mount Calm Township, Fulton, Arkansas, United States in 1930. She died on 14 April 1948, in Calico Rock, Izard, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Viola, Fulton, Arkansas, United States.
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- Matildia Foster in household of Alonzo L Foster, "United States Census, 1930"
- C M Lynn, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Clarissa Matilda Linn Foster, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
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.
Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhloinn and Ó Fhloinn (see Flynn ).
Scottish: variant of Lyne 3.
English: habitational name from any of several places so called in Norfolk, in particular King's Lynn, an important center of the medieval wool trade. The placename is probably from an Old Welsh word cognate with Gaelic linn ‘pool, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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