When Asa Alvin Callis was born on 9 June 1869, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Henry Callis, was 51 and his mother, Sabra Russell, was 38. He married Lillie Della Houser on 13 August 1889, in Obion, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Civil District 4, Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died in 1900, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 31.
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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.
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.
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from the French port of Calais.
Greek: variant of Kallis .
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