When Nancy Dixon Porter was born on 16 January 1865, in Perryville, Perry, Arkansas, United States, her father, Dickson Porter, was 35 and her mother, Susan Lyles, was 35. She married Franklin Alexander Spencer on 24 December 1882, in Crawford, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Long, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States in 1920 and McKey Township, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. She died on 13 December 1941, in Muldrow, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Maple, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
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English and Scottish: occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English and Older Scots porter(e), port(o)ur ‘doorkeeper, gatekeeper’ (Anglo-Norman French port(i)er, portur, Latin portarius). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. The name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner ) and Poertner .
English: occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Middle English port(o)ur, porter ‘porter, carrier of burdens’ (Anglo-Norman French portur, porteo(u)r).
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized, of Poorter, status name for a freeman (burgher) of a town, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter. Compare De Porter .
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