Brief Life History of Martha May
When Martha May Jones was born on 15 November 1874, in Wagner Township, Clayton, Iowa, United States, her father, Clarence Edward Jones, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Louisa Overley, was 24. She had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with George Fremont Hawkins. She lived in Mason Township, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, United States in 1920 and Cerro Gordo, Iowa, United States in 1925. She died on 21 August 1957, in Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Elmwood Saint Joseph Cemetery, Mason City, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, United States.
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- Mattie M Hawkins, "Iowa State Census, 1915"
- Martha May Jones Hawkins, "Find A Grave Index"
- Martha M Jones in entry for Arthur Charles Hawkins and Phyllis Amelia Walker, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
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 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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