Brief Life History of Mary Alice
When Mary Alice Younger was born on 10 February 1868, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States, her father, Joseph Thomas Younger, was 35 and her mother, Sophia Eve Vestal, was 34. She married James A. Spear on 18 September 1895, in Noble, Oklahoma, United States. She lived in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States in 1930 and Blanchard, McClain, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. She died on 30 August 1962, in McClain, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Blanchard, McClain, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Alice Fox, "United States Census, 1940"
- Alice Spear, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Alice S. Fox, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
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
English (mainly Northumberland and eastern Scotland): from Middle English yungre ‘younger’, comparative of Young , used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In one case, at least, however, the name is known to have been borne by an immigrant Fleming, and was probably an Americanized form of Middle Dutch jongheer ‘young nobleman’ (see Jonker ).
Americanized form of various cognate or like-sounding names in other languages, notably German Junger and Junker , or Dutch Jonker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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