Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Briggs was born on 7 February 1892, in Lead Hill, Boone, Arkansas, United States, her father, William Franklin Briggs, was 22 and her mother, Elizabeth Jane Harris, was 21. She married Thomas Marion Kay on 15 August 1909, in Tahlequah, Cherokee, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States in 1935 and Moore Township, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. She died on 26 December 1981, in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Mary Kay in household of Morron Kay, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mary Kay, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Mary Briggs, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
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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.
1907
Oklahoma is the 46th state.
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Brigg, with post-medieval excrescent -s, from Middle English brig(g) (Old Norse bryggja), the northern and Scottish word for bridge, for someone who lived by a bridge or who came from any of the places called from the word.
History: The surname Briggs is found chiefly in West Yorkshire. A family of gentry have held lands at Keighley in West Yorkshire continuously for 500 years. The mathematician Henry Briggs (1561–1631), who invented logarithms, was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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