Brief Life History of Rachel Caroline
When Rachel Caroline Brooks was born on 19 October 1874, in Boss, Dent, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Ransom Brooks, was 28 and her mother, Mary Ann "Polly" Sizemore, was 25. She married Prentiss Franklin Bonney on 9 March 1892, in Salem, Dent, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Liberty Township, Washington, Missouri, United States in 1930 and Mill Spring, Wayne, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 1 May 1944, in Leeper, Wayne, Missouri, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Lesterville, Reynolds, Missouri, United States.
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- Carrie Huiit in household of Ira Huiit, "United States Census, 1920"
- Rachel C Brooks Huitt, "Find A Grave Index"
- Rachel Brooks in entry for P F Bonney, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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World Events (8)
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.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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: usually a variant of Brook , with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s, with no grammatical function, is usually post-medieval, but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function, and the name means ‘dweller at the brook’, not ‘dweller at the brooks’. A plural sense cannot be ruled out elsewhere, but a non-grammatical -(e)s must also be considered a strong possibility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Brucks .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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