When David Edwin Hedgepeth was born on 6 June 1865, in Chester, South Carolina, United States, his father, William Petrie Hedgepeth, was 26 and his mother, Frances Virginia Colvin, was 22. He married Elitha Jane McCrary on 18 December 1894. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Ward, Allen, Louisiana, United States in 1935 and La Salle, Louisiana, United States in 1940.
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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.
Louisiana was readmitted into the Union.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English: variant of Hudspeth , altered by folk etymology. This name is particularly common in NC.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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