Brief Life History of Robert Edward
When Robert Edward Paulk was born on 1 October 1869, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, his father, Dr. Samuel Ottison Paulk, was 27 and his mother, Mary Adeline Parilee Austin, was 29. He married Roxie Liza Austin on 18 December 1895, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Civil District 10, Wayne, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died on 23 September 1906, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States.
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- R E Paulk in household of S O Paulk, "United States Census, 1900"
- Robert E. Paulk, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
- Robert Edward Paulk, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English (Devon) and Scottish: shortened form of Pollock . The Scottish name is a variant of Polk .
Altered form of a German surname, possibly Paulke .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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