Brief Life History of Marion Lawrence
When Marion Lawrence Peacock was born on 29 October 1869, in Austin, Jennings Township, Scott, Indiana, United States, his father, John Peacock, was 36 and his mother, Margaret Margy Young, was 33. He married Lillie Florence Reynolds on 13 September 1916, in Scott, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Indiana, United States in 1916 and Jennings Township, Scott, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 22 November 1939, in Austin, Jennings Township, Scott, Indiana, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Austin, Jennings Township, Scott, Indiana, United States.
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- Marion Peacock, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Marion Laurence Peacock - birth: 29 October 1869; Scott, Indiana, United States
- Marion L Peacock, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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World Events (8)
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.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English pecock, pacok, pocok, Old English pēacocc ‘peacock’. It could be used as a personal name or as a nickname for one ‘as proud as a peacock’. Compare Paw , Pay . This surname is widespread in England and southern Scotland, and is also established in Ireland. Compare Pea .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Dealing with a bull in the barn
Marion was in the barn one day when a bull got agitated and into the area where Marion was working. The bull pinned him to the wall and broke Marion's collar bone doing it. Marion was quite helpless …
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