Brief Life History of Joanna "Anna"
When Joanna "Anna" Wilkey was born on 18 November 1869, in Sullivan, Indiana, United States, her father, James Wilkey, was 34 and her mother, Lucinda Owings, was 32. She married Samuel McClellan Faucett on 28 September 1893, in Vigo, Indiana, United States. She lived in Turman Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Sugar Creek Township, Vigo, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 18 March 1957, in Terre Haute, Sullivan, Indiana, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Bethesda Cemetery, Sugar Creek Township, Vigo, Indiana, United States.
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- Anna Shorter in household of Elmer Shorter, "United States Census, 1940"
- Anna Wilkey, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Josa Anna Shorter, "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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
Name Meaning
English (Devon): variant of Wilkie 1.
Americanized form of German Wilke .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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