Brief Life History of Merle Francis
When Merle Francis Jones was born on 12 October 1918, in Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, United States, his father, Jessie Mckinley Jones, was 22 and his mother, Daisy Mae Thompson, was 17. He married Joyce Faye Shoop on 9 September 1942, in Anadarko, Caddo, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Rieth, Umatilla, Oregon, United States in 1950 and Lawrenceville, Lawrence, Illinois, United States in 2002. He died on 1 December 2002, in Lawrence County Memorial Hospital, Lawrence, Illinois, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Bridgeport, Lawrence, Illinois, United States.
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- Merle F Jones, "United States 1950 Census"
- Merle F Jones, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Merle Francis Jones, "Find A Grave Index"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1921 · Tulsa Race Massacre
By 1921, Tulsa was a booming city with a population of over one hundred thousand, with ten thousand African Americans in the Greenwood District. Crime rates in Tulsa soared and vigilantism was present. An incident occurred with Dick Rowland, an African American shoe shiner, and Sara Page, a white elevator operator. Reports claim Rowland stepped on Page’s foot and she let out a scream. The newspaper reported Rowland attempted to rape Page. Rowland was arrested and white vigilantes demanded the sheriff to hand over Rowland for lynching. An armed group of African American men went to the courthouse to aid in protecting Rowland from the mob. The group was turned away and a shot was fired between the white and African American groups, which ignited a riot. While buildings in Tulsa were burned, a major effort by whites focused mainly on the Greenwood District which was burned to the ground and many were shot. Over 30 people were killed and many were injured in the riots.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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