When Herbert Preston was born on 9 September 1869, in Tyrone Township, Livingston, Michigan, United States, his father, Elmer Preston, was 22 and his mother, Anna Brown, was 21. He married Cora Anella Dormire on 20 September 1893, in Tyrone Township, Livingston, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Assiniboia, Lake of the Rivers No. 72, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1911 and Battle Creek Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States in 1930. He died on 18 February 1945, in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States.
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Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Oldest Grave seen in the Memorials List.
The Hammond Building was a high-rise building completed in 1889 and was 151 feet tall. It's considered the first skyscraper in the city and was the tallest in Michigan after it was built. The Hammond Building was demolished in 1956 to make way for the National Bank of Detroit Building.
English:
habitational name from one of the many places (most notably one in Lancashire) so called from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
occasionally from Middle English prest + son ‘son of the priest’. Priests were forbidden marriage but many produced illegitimate offspring.
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