When Clifton Emerson Gilmore was born on 6 October 1894, in Marion, Alabama, United States, his father, Henry Dee Lewis Gilmore, was 43 and his mother, Louisa Jane Smith, was 40. He married Lena Woods on 14 November 1911, in Morris, Texas, United States. He lived in United States in 1949 and Fannin, Texas, United States in 1950. He died on 3 March 1960, in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Daingerfield Cemetery, Daingerfield, Morris, Texas, United States.
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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.
Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful "oil boom".
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Scottish and Irish (Ulster and Galway): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Mhoire (Scots), Mac Giolla Mhuire (Irish), patronymics from personal names meaning ‘servant (i.e. devotee) of (the Virgin) Mary’.
Irish: in Sligo, shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhir ‘son of the spirited lad’.
English: habitational name from Gillamoor in Rydale (North Yorkshire), from Old English Gedling (‘place called after Gētla’, from the Old English personal name Gētla + the connective particle -ing) + mōr ‘moor’.
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