Brief Life History of Ella
When Ella Butcher was born about 1866, in Monroe, Indiana, United States, her father, Elah R. Butcher, was 49 and her mother, Elvira Jane Givens, was 41. She married William B. Smith on 20 June 1886, in Monroe, Indiana, United States. She lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Beaty Township, Carroll, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 25 November 1891, in Monroe, Indiana, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Bloomington, Perry Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States.
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- Ella Butcher in household of Elah Butcher, "United States Census, 1870"
- Ella Butcher Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
- Elvira Butcher in entry for William B Smith, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a butcher or slaughterer, from Middle English, Anglo-Norman French bocher, bouch(i)er, bowcher (Old French bochier, bouchier, a derivative of bouc ‘ram’).
Americanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Bučar (see Bucar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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