Brief Life History of George Robert
When George Robert Bentley was born on 6 January 1868, in Cobb, Georgia, United States, his father, Green Berry Bentley, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Gresham, was 28. He married Emma Irene Benson on 15 February 1891. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in District 890, Cherokee, Georgia, United States in 1900 and Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, United States in 1910. He died on 14 May 1919, in Cobb, Georgia, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Gresham Cemetery, Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, United States.
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- George R Bentley in household of Green B Bentley, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: George Robert Bentley - Government record: Death record or certificate: birth: 6 January 1868; Georgia, United States
- G R Bentley, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, the chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and South Yorkshire. The placename is from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of South German Bentele or of its Swiss German or South German cognates Bandle and Bandli.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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