Brief Life History of Elijah
When Elijah Creech was born on 1 September 1868, in Wise, Virginia, United States, his father, Jonathan Creech, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Ann Elkins, was 36. He married Mary Elizabeth Adams on 27 July 1886, in Wise, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in East Stone Gap, Wise, Virginia, United States in 1900 and Richmond District, Wise, Virginia, United States for about 20 years. He died on 29 December 1937, in Wise, Wise, Virginia, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Big Stone Gap, Wise, Virginia, United States.
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- Elijah Creech in household of Jonathan Creech, "United States Census, 1870"
- E Creech, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Elijah Creech, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935"
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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.
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: habitational name from Creech Saint Michael in Somerset or East Creech in Dorset, both named with the Celtic element crṻg ‘mound, hill’.
English: perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a creek, if Reaney is right to presume a Middle English word crich(e), creche (Old English cricc) with this sense. Alternatively, from Middle English cracche, crecche ‘manger, stall; stable’, perhaps ‘cottage or hut’.
Manx: shortened form of Gaelic Mac Raois, an altered form of Mac Aonghuis ‘son of Aonghus (Angus)’. Ballacreetch in Onchan on the Isle of Man means ‘Creetch's farm’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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