When Leatha Lee Harris was born on 20 April 1869, in Fannin, Georgia, United States, her father, James Wesley Harris, was 41 and her mother, Elmira Melissa Mashburn, was 42. She married William Anderson Deaver on 15 October 1885, in Morgan Mill, Erath, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Cleveland, Oklahoma, United States in 1935 and Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. She died on 12 March 1960, in Victoria, Victoria, Texas, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in IOOF Cemetery, Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma, United States.
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Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
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 last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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