When Lou Anna Best was born on 17 September 1869, in Mauckport, Heth Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States, her father, Daniel Best, was 35 and her mother, Susan Margaret Miller, was 31. She married Oscar Theodore Aydelotte on 20 April 1890, in Corydon, Harrison Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Roswell, Chaves, New Mexico, United States for about 10 years and Tulare, Tulare, California, United States in 1930. She died on 15 June 1935, in Riverside, Riverside, California, United States, at the age of 65.
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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.
Hostilities between Modoc Indians and white settlers resulted in the Modoc War during 1872-1873. A Modoc band of nearly 200 people, led by Captain Jack Kintpuash, was fleeing a forced relocation to a reservation occupied by their enemies, the Klamaths. The band had returned to their former land on Lost River, which now had white settlers occupying the area. The conflict erupted on November 29, 1872, when 40 troops were sent to move the Modocs back to the reservation. An argument erupted and shots were fired. Several were killed and the Modocs fled to “The Stronghold,” a large, cavernous lava bed. The holdout went on for months with several clashes. On April 11, 1873, General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby and Reverend Eleazar Thomas were killed by the Modocs during a negotiation. The Modocs lacked resources and supplies and eventually surrendered on July 4. In total, 2 Modocs and 71 enlisted military men lost their lives.
Historical Boundaries: 1889: Chaves, New Mexico Territory, United States 1912: Chaves, New Mexico, United States
English and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English best(e) (Old English betst) ‘best, finest (person)’.
English, northern Irish, and French: nickname from Middle English best(e), Old French beste ‘beast, animal’ (especially those used for food or work), applied either as a metonymic occupational name for someone who looked after beasts, such as a herdsman, or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble an animal. Compare English Bester 1.
English: from a Middle English adverbial expression of the Best, but the meaning is unknown.
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