Brief Life History of Emily Lillian
When Emily Lillian Barker was born on 2 September 1869, in Murfreesboro, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Blount Barker, was 46 and her mother, Emeline Frances Sypert, was 32. She married Thomas Clemon Summers on 14 July 1890, in Gregg, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 3, Harrison, Texas, United States in 1900 and Anson, Jones, Texas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 24 January 1954, in El Centro, Imperial, California, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Anson, Jones, Texas, United States.
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Sources (29)
- Emily Barker, "United States Census, 1880"
- Emma L. Barker, "Texas, Gregg County, Marriage Records, 1873-2017"
- Emily Lillian Barker Ferrell, "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.
1881
Historical Boundaries: 1881: Jones, Texas, United States
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: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English barkere ‘tanner’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English berker, bercher (Old French berchier, bercher, berkier, berker, Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name (see 1 above).
Americanized form of German Berger or Barger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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