When Elency Kate "Sallie" Crook was born on 18 August 1878, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Jefferson C Crook, was 29 and her mother, Elmina E COLE, was 37. She married Thomas M. Parker on 1 May 1898, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Lower Hominy Township, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1900 and Beaverdam Township, Haywood, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years. She died on 25 January 1941, in Haywood, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery, Candler, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States.
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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.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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.
English:
topographic name from Old Norse krókr ‘nook or bend’ denoting someone who lived by a bend in a river or road. In some instances the surname may have arisen as a habitational name from any of the places called Crook in Cumberland and Durham, or Crooke in Lancashire, all of which are derived from this word.
topographic name for someone who lived ‘(at the) barrow or mound’ from Brittonic crüg. In some instances this may have arisen as a habitational name from either Crook in Combe Raleigh or perhaps Crooke in North Tawton (both Devon), which are derived from this word.
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