Brief Life History of Jefferson Davis
When Jefferson Davis Hardcastle was born on 8 August 1893, in Texas, United States, his father, Thomas J Hardcastle, was 31 and his mother, Katie Bell Baggett, was 22. He married May Morgan on 26 August 1913, in Pulaski, Arkansas, United States. He lived in Cleburne, Johnson, Texas, United States in 1900. He died on 2 June 1917, in Muskogee, Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 23, and was buried in Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee, Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Jefferson D Hardcastle in household of Thomas J Hardcastle, "United States Census, 1910"
- Jeffye Hardcastle in household of Thos J Hardcastle, "United States Census, 1900"
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World Events (8)
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Hardcastle in Bewerley (Yorkshire), from Middle English hard ‘hard, tough’ + castel ‘castle, fortress’. Hardcastle Garth, originally a Quaker settlement near Harrogate, took its name from its founder; likewise Hardcastle Crags in Yorkshire probably takes its name from the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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