When Ruth Philora Haight was born on 6 September 1894, in Chelsea, Taylor, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Alfred Eugene Haight Sr, was 42 and her mother, Rosealpha Analisa Wilmot, was 25. She married John Kenneth Merritt on 1 June 1913, in Osceola, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1949 and Avant, Osage, Oklahoma, United States in 1950. She died on 16 March 1971, in Polk, Florida, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Ethel Reece Cemetery, Barnsdall, Osage, Oklahoma, 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.
Earliest Known Burial: 1899
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.
possibly a variant of Hight , a topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill. This form of the surname is now rare in Britain.
perhaps sometimes a nickname from Middle English hait ‘merry; revelry’.
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