Brief Life History of Dicey
When Dicey Saul was born on 27 July 1891, in Texas, United States, her father, James Green Saul, was 28 and her mother, Martha Ann Stalcup, was 27. She married William Guyverney Ables on 27 March 1908. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Hood, Texas, United States in 1935 and Justice Precinct 6, Hood, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 17 May 1980, at the age of 88, and was buried in Granbury, Hood, Texas, United States.
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- Dicy Ables in household of William G Ables, "United States Census, 1940"
- Dicy Saul, "Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981"
- Dicy Sauls, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
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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.
Name Meaning
English, French, German, Italian, and Jewish: from the personal name Saul (Hebrew Shaul ‘asked-for’), the name of the king of Israel whose story is recounted in the first book of Samuel. In spite of his success in uniting Israel and his military prowess, Saul had a troubled reign, not least because of his long conflict with the young David, who eventually succeeded him. Perhaps for this reason, the personal name was not particularly common in medieval times. A further disincentive to its popularity as a Christian name was the fact that it was the original name of Saint Paul, borne by him while he was persecuting Christians, and rejected by him after his conversion to Christianity. It may in part have arisen as a nickname for someone who had played the part of the Biblical king in a religious play.
English: variant of Sall .
English and Irish: variant of Sale 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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