Brief Life History of Richard A
When Richard A Jones was born on 22 August 1892, in Cass, Texas, United States, his father, Robert P Jones, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Melissa Adams, was 37. He married Lottie Viola Burkhalter on 15 November 1914, in Bowie, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 4, Bowie, Texas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 3, Cass, Texas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 20 September 1958, in Marietta, Cass, Texas, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Bryans Mill, Cass, Texas, United States.
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- A Jones, "United States Census, 1920"
- A Jones, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Richard A Jones, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
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.
1910 · The BSA is Made
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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