When Grace Rowena Pilcher was born on 23 November 1869, in Olathe, Johnson, Kansas, United States, her father, James Ruthven Ferdinand Pilcher, was 37 and her mother, Martha H Givens, was 16. She married Robert Alexander Smith on 10 August 1904, in Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, United States. She lived in Johnson, Kansas, United States in 1885. She died on 29 November 1938, in Tempe, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Tempe Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1871: Maricopa, Arizona Territory, United States 1912: Maricopa, Arizona, United States
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.
English (southeastern): occupational name for a maker or seller of pilches, from an agent derivative of Pilch . In early 17th-century English, pilcher was a popular term of abuse, being confused or punningly associated with the unrelated verb pilch ‘to steal’ and with the unrelated noun pilchard, a kind of fish.
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