Brief Life History of Eva Ellen
When Eva Ellen Heck was born on 27 March 1868, in New Springfield, Mahoning, Ohio, United States, her father, Benjamin Heck, was 42 and her mother, Elizabeth May, was 40. She married Arther W. Collar on 18 March 1899, in Mahoning, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Springfield Township, Mahoning, Ohio, United States for about 20 years and New Middletown, Mahoning, Ohio, United States in 1930. She died on 27 April 1936, at the age of 68, and was buried in Petersburg, Jackson, Ohio, United States.
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- E Ellen Heck in household of Benjamin Heck, "United States Census, 1870"
- Eva Heck, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Ella E Heck, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
South German: topographic name from Middle High German hecke, hegge ‘hedge’. This surname is common in southern Germany and the Rhineland, and is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Dutch: topographic name from Middle Dutch heck ‘fence, gate’. Compare Van Hecke .
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a gate or ‘hatch’ (especially one leading into a forest), northern Middle English heck (Old English hæcce). Compare Hatch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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