Brief Life History of Amaretta Laurentina 'Tina'
When Amaretta Laurentina 'Tina' Westfall was born on 26 December 1869, in Isaac Creek, Harrison, West Virginia, United States, her father, Joel Lafayette Westfall, was 29 and her mother, Julia A Burnside, was 31. She married John William Miller on 6 December 1891, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Union District, Harrison, West Virginia, United States in 1880 and Grant District, Harrison, West Virginia, United States for about 30 years. She died on 22 November 1954, in Mount Clare, Harrison, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Good Hope Masonic Cemetery, Goodhope, Harrison, West Virginia, United States.
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- Tina Miller, "United States Census, 1950"
- Aramitta Westfall, "West Virginia Births, 1853-1930"
- Tina Westfall, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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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
Americanized form of German Westfahl and Westphal .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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