Brief Life History of William John Pinkney
When William John Pinkney Maples was born on 10 August 1882, in Blount, Tennessee, United States, his father, Gilbert Russell Maples, was 23 and his mother, Rebecca Atchley, was 30. He married Jemima Lou Ogle on 22 June 1918, in Blount, Tennessee, United States. He lived in Civil District 4, Sevier, Tennessee, United States in 1920. He died on 12 July 1929, at the age of 46, and was buried in Alder Branch, Sevier, Tennessee, United States.
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- John P Maplee, "United States Census, 1920"
- John Pink Maples, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- John Pinkney Maples, "Find A Grave Index"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
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
topographic name for someone who lived beside maple trees, from Middle English mapel, plural mapeles (see Maple ).
variant of Maple , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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