Brief Life History of Bessie Ann
When Bessie Ann Roberts was born on 9 May 1890, in Mooresville, Livingston, Missouri, United States, her father, Sterling Price Roberts, was 27 and her mother, Alice Delila Walker, was 21. She had at least 1 son. She lived in Mooresville Township, Livingston, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 9 September 1963, at the age of 73, and was buried in Hutchison Cemetery, Chillicothe, Livingston, Missouri, United States.
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- Bessie A Roberts in household of Sterling P Roberts, "United States Census, 1900"
- Bessie Ann Roberts Dawkins, "Find a Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1910 · The BSA is Made
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Name Meaning
English: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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