Brief Life History of Paralee Belle
When Paralee Belle Harlan was born on 19 November 1873, in Crocker, Pulaski, Missouri, United States, her father, Fountain Pitts Harlan, was 40 and her mother, Elizabeth B Clark, was 39. She married George Washington Jackson Jr on 14 February 1892, in Boone Township, Texas, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Rural Township, Rock Island, Illinois, United States in 1935 and Beaucoup Election Precinct, Perry, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died on 3 February 1959, in Normandy, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Cavaness Cemetery, Lynch Township, Texas, Missouri, United States.
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- Pearl Jackson in household of George Jackson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Paralee B Harlan - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Paralee B Harlan
- Parelee Harlan or Hardan, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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: habitational name from any of several minor places called in Old English with hār ‘gray’, hara ‘hare’, or hær ‘rock, tumulus’ + land ‘tract of land, estate, cultivated land’, notably Harland in Kirkbymoorside (North Yorkshire). This surname has also been present in northern Ireland (Armagh and Antrim) since the 17th century, but is now rare in Britain.
History: Harlan County, KY was named for Major Silas Harlan (died 1782). John Marshall Harlan, born in KY in 1833, became a US Supreme Court justice.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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