Brief Life History of Cora Pearl
When Cora Pearl Kimbro was born on 31 August 1891, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States, her father, Jefferson Hezekiah Kimbro, was 35 and her mother, Martha E. Lee, was 31. She married Russell Braxton Vanderpool on 16 October 1908, in Eufaula, McIntosh, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She lived in Eufaula, McIntosh, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years and Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi, United States in 1930. She died on 9 February 1978, in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson, Claiborne, Mississippi, United States.
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- Cora P Kimbro, "United States Census, 1910"
- Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
- Cora Pearl Harding, "Texas Deaths, 1977-1986"
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1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
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.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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English: variant of Kimbrough .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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