When John Lee Burrow was born on 2 August 1891, in Mammoth Spring, Fulton, Arkansas, United States, his father, James Madrid Burrow, was 37 and his mother, Ida Josephine Whiteside, was 31. He married Florence Ellen Stevenin on 7 December 1919, in Sharp, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Mammoth Spring Township, Fulton, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 15 January 1978, in Thayer, Oregon, Missouri, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Mammoth Spring, Fulton, Arkansas, 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.
Rice is one Arkansas leading crops, in 1904 William H. Fuller planted 70 acres of rice, this act is what started the making rice the leading crop in Arkansas.
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.
English:
topographic name for someone who lived by a castle or manor house, or in a town, especially a chartered town or borough (Middle English burgh, Old English burg ‘fortified place, borough, manor’), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place so named because it was a fortified town or near an ancient fort, such as Burrow (Leicestershire, Lancashire), Burrough Green (Cambridgeshire), Brough (numerous counties), and Peterborough (Northamptonshire); see also Burgh .
topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or near a mound (Middle English bergh, Old English beorg), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place so named, such as Burrow (Devon, Somerset). Middle English bergh became throughly confused with burgh in 1 above. Compare Burrough .
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