Both of the Frenches pleaded not guilty to resisting arrest charges on Oct.
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The Frenches were based out of San Jose, California, and their condo was in Mammoth Lakes, California.
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Frenches Creek is a locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia.
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May 11, 1876. The KKK broke into the jail, took the Frenches about a mile upstream of Warsaw, and hanged them both from a tree on J.H. McDaniels' (McDonnell's in another account) farm.
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Frenches Ravine is a former settlement in Yuba County, California. It was located south-southeast of Dobbins, at an elevation of 531 feet (162 m). It still appeared on maps as of 1895.
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Benjamin French had worked for several years as a "roustabout" on the Benjamin Franklin and General Buell, early river steamboats operating on the Ohio River. In typical fashion, the local newspaper tried to discredit the Frenches after their lynching deaths, saying that "The Frenches were thoroughly disliked in the community... and Ben was a well-known chicken thief." Mollie French was known as "a sort of black Borgia". The newspaper reported that she was said to have murdered a former husband by the name of Boaz with arsenic poison too.
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The earliest known list of fish from the River Trent was from 1641. Although the list contains thirty names, one of them is not a fish by modern standards, but an edible crustacean, the Crayfish. The list also includes some fish names that no longer exist in modern English, such as "Frenches" and "Lenbrood"; these species are therefore currently unidentifiable. George Turner, 1850 The 1641 list of 30 species (verbatim, note antique spelling of some names): Barbet, Bream, Bullhead, Burbolts, Carp, Chevin, Crayfish, Dates, Eel, Flounder, Frenches, Gudgeon, Grayling, Lampern, Lamphrey, Lenbrood, Loach, Minnows, Pickeral, Pinks, Perch, Roach, Ruff, Salmon, Shad, Smelt, Sticklebats, Sturgeon, Trout, Whitling.
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Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press Lake Jones was an elderly black man who had faithfully served a white family named Howard, both before and after his emancipation from slavery.Cincinnati Commercial. May 5, 1876. The Frenches killed Lake Jones by arsenic poisoning, intending to steal his money.
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Frenches Creek has a population of 85 at the . The locality contains 36 households, in which 43.3% of the population are males and 56.7% of the population are females with a median age of 53, 15 years above the national average. The average weekly household income is $1,125, $313 below the national average.
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In 1943 French married Kathrine Story (1922-2006), whom he had met at Pomona and who was also pursuing a Ph.D. at Columbia. From 1943 to 1946, the Frenches served as relocation advisers and community analysts with the War Relocation Authority, monitoring conditions at relocation centers for Japanese-Americans, as part of a program to mitigate abuses.
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"Crimes and casualties", Logansport Weekly Journal (Indiana), May 13, 1876"Recorded Cases of Black Female Lynching Victims 1886-1957 in the United States", Africa World Newspaper The Ku Klux Klan lynched the Frenches because, they said, Lake Jones was "the best nigger in the country."Cincinnati Enquirer. May 5, 1876. "A Bloody Night's Work at Warsaw, Ky." Frankfort Tri- Weekly Yeoman.
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Frenchs Forest (pron. frenches) is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Frenchs Forest is 13 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council. Frenchs Forest is part of Sydney's Northern Beaches region and also considered to be part of the Forest District, colloquially known as The Forest by its locals.
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The lynching of the Frenches of Warsaw took place in Warsaw, Gallatin County, Kentucky on May 3, 1876, between 1am and 2am on a Wednesday morning. Benjamin and Mollie French, African Americans, were lynched by a white mob for the murder of another African American, which was unusual for this period.Wright, George C. 1990. Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings". pp. 98-99.
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The flames soon spread to the America, and many passengers perished by burning or drowning. The combined death toll was 162, making it one of the most deadly steamboat accidents in American history. The Lynchings of the Frenches of Warsaw were conducted by a white mob on May 3, 1876. It was unusual as Benjamin and Mollie French were killed for the murder of Lake Jones, another, older African-American man.
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The amateur foil competition had 54 fencers from 10Mallon's count of 8 is based on Corvington and Smet being labelled Frenches in the first round and quarterfinals of Mallon's book; Mallon correctly has Smet as Belgian in the semifinals and final. Adding Belgium and Haiti gives the 9th and 10th nations. nations compete. For the first round, quarterfinals, and repechage, skill and art with the foil was more important to advancing than winning the bout.
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The pub (Horse and Jockey) closed in the 80's and the Post Office also has gone. The village is set in a beautiful location nestled in a gentle valley in Northern Hampshire. It is surrounded by farmland and has woodland at the top of the village (Doles Wood) and has a single road that runs to Frenches Farm. There are two other 'roads' - Big Street and Little Street (which is now a footpath).
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The entire operation of the masked Warsaw lynch mob took 35 minutes to complete their mission. Wilshire said that the lynch mob were white men, but he would not identify any of them. The Cincinnati Commercial and the Cincinnati Enquirer disagree on the name of the man's farm where the bodies of the Frenches were found. The Cincinnati Commercial reported that it was J. H. McDaniel's farm, and the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that it was Jim McDonnell's farm.
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Lieutnant Radesky, an Austrian, secretly wathes operation on board an observation balloon and diverts the attention of his compatriots from the city. Meanwhile, scottishes and frenches soldiers obtain golden bars in a church right under the noses of the Austrians Uhlans. Then, Radesky is recovered by Americans (including a paramedic named Hernestway, who reminds Ernest Hemingway). Also, the fortune is load in a Greek gunboat piloted by Onatis (evoking Aristotle Onassis), where Corto is waiting the end of the operation.
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These succeed at making Frank wealthy (nearly a millionaire) and more respected in town, but he is miserable at home with Agnes. He occasionally walks around town at night trying to peep into people's windows. Eventually Ginnie visits Gwen at the Frenches' house and begs Gwen to not take Dave away from her. Horrified to learn that Dave has been sleeping with Ginnie (regarded by many in town as "the biggest hore [sic] in Parkman"), Gwen decisively rejects Dave and leaves town.
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NC 163 is a two-lane mountain highway that traverses from West Jefferson to NC 16\. The highway travels with gliding curves through the valley area, with nearby mountains including Mount Jefferson, Round Knob and Frenches Knob along its edges. A majority of the route parallels Beaver Creek down to its confluence with the South Fork New River. At its eastern terminus, travelers can continue south on NC 16 to the Blue Ridge Parkway, located at Horse Gap (), or continue down the mountain towards Wilkesboro.
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Their many contributions to Warm Springs ethnography included an exhaustive ethnobotanical inventory, numerous published articles on topics such as oral narrative and the relationship between language and culture, and a still unpublished dictionary of Wasco-Wishram (Kiksht). In the mid 1960s French facilitated the inaugural fieldwork, on Chinookan, of a young Michael Silverstein, who was later to become a leading linguist and semiotician. The Frenches' ethnobotanical research also included fieldwork among peasants of France's Massif Central in the 1960s, accompanied by Claude Lévi-Strauss.
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In 2009 the group has performed at many concerts including Eurofest at Frenches Forrest and will be performing at the Oktoberfest and Polish Christmas at Darling Harbour in December before their departure to the PolArt 2009 festival held in Adelaide. 2012 saw the group travel to Perth for the first PolArt festival to be held in WA. This was a huge success. 2015 the group travelled to Melbourne for the next PolArt Festival held in Victoria. 2016 was the 40th Anniversary of Kujawy-Sydney.
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Accessed 2008-01-19. It is home to John J. Cornwell Elementary School. The community was so named on account of the relatively level original town site. Levels was originally known as Levels Cross Roads because of its location at the intersection of four roads in north-central Hampshire County: Bright's Hollow Road (County Route 5/5) north to Okonoko, Little Cacapon-Levels Road (County Route 3/3) southeast to Slanesville, Jersey Mountain Road (County Route 5) south to Romney, and Frenches Station Road (County Route 5/7) northwest to South Branch Depot.
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Elizabeth Fort in the 19th Century The South Parish is one of the oldest inhabited areas of Cork City. Along with Shandon, it was the first area developed outside the city walls. In the oldest known maps of Cork City, including examples dated to 1545 and 1601, there are structures shown in the area. There was a Danish settlement in the area that is now Frenches Quay, Barrack Street and George's Quay as early as the 10th century AD. In this area, Keysers Hill still bears a name of Danish origin.
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In 1937, French married Margaret Hoening (died 1998), also an artist who was 15 years French's senior. For the next eight years Cadmus and the Frenches summered on Fire Island and formed a photographic collective called PaJaMa ("Paul, Jared, and Margaret"). In between Provincetown, Truro, Fire Island, and New York, they staged various black and white photographs of themselves with their friends, both nude and clothed. Most of these friends featured in the photographs were among New York's young artists, dancers and writers, and most were handsome and gay.
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After the Frenches had been held for 10 days in the Warsaw jail, in the early morning of May 3, 1876, John Brown, A. Kirby and Charles Woods, three young men working at the Brown Hotel, "heard the noise of horses trotting about the streets". The three young men peeked out the window and saw a disguised man on horseback in the middle of the square in front of the courthouse. Near the next corner, a party of five or six men were halting. Wednesday was "a brilliant night," as "the moon shone brightly," and "it was nearly as light as day".
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The DeFreines, the ffrenches, and the Frenches, who were of noble blood, came to Ireland with Strongbow during the Norman Invasion of Ireland from 1169 to 1172AD. There were and still are two or three families of Irish peers who carry the names DeFréine, ffrench, and French. As Anglo-Normans the French family became one of the 14 Tribes of Galway, helping to found the town in 1425AD, fortifying it to keep the locals out. In Wexford the name Franey is common, In Wicklow Freeney / Freney is common and in the Connaught area (Sligo/Galway) Frain, Freine are common.
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South Branch Depot also known as South Branch is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Originally known as Forks of Potomac because of its proximity to the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Potomac River and then later in the early 20th century as French's Station and then simply South Branch, South Branch Depot served as a depot and post office on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad since the railroad was constructed there in the 1840s. Today, South Branch Depot may only be reached from Levels by way of Frenches Station Road (County Route 5/7).
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The families of Reynoldston represented a cross-section of the population of Northern New York State and included French–Canadians, Irish, Scottish, from New England backgrounds. Most of the residents were Roman Catholics although a number of them were of Protestant backgrounds. Some to the family names were -the Allen Bordeaux, Joseph Bombard, Alfred French, Jondro, Duso, William LaHares, Nelson Duso, Joseph Meno' and Philias and Henry Moquin, Oliver Trushaw- and had very large families of 10 or more children and as such probably made up a majority of the community early in the 20th century. In addition most of these families intermarried in subsequent generations – Campbells married Bordeauxs married Frenches married Bombards and LaHares.
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