Brief Life History of Easter Jeanette
When Easter Jeanette Cole was born on 31 August 1872, in Chinquapin, Duplin, North Carolina, United States, her father, Joseph Cole, was 51 and her mother, Irene Jane Batts, was 22. She married Henry Nickerson Brown on 5 June 1889, in Chinquapin, Duplin, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Cypress Creek, Duplin, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years and Cypress Creek Township, Duplin, North Carolina, United States in 1950. She died on 30 April 1957, in Duplin, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Chinquapin, Duplin, North Carolina, United States.
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- Easter Brown, "United States 1950 Census"
- Easter Brown, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Easter Jeanette Brown, "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994"
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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.
1877 · Last Troops Leave
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
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 from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).
English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).
English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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