When Alexander Demarest was born on 14 December 1869, in Welsh, Jefferson Davis, Louisiana, United States, his father, Joseph Toussaint Desmarets, was 31 and his mother, Marie Aspasie Arceneaux, was 32. He married Marie Ezeide Bourgeois in 1889, in Welsh, Jefferson Davis, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Ward 2 Mermenton, Calcasieu, Louisiana, United States in 1880 and Ward Eight, Jefferson Davis, Louisiana, United States for about 20 years. He died on 24 April 1959, in Welsh, Jefferson Davis, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Lacassine, Jefferson Davis, Louisiana, 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.
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.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
French: regional variant of Demarais , a cognate of 2 below.
Altered form of French Desmarets: habitational name, with fused preposition and definite article des ‘from the’, for someone from any of various places called Les Marets (from a regional derivative of Old French mareis ‘marsh’). Alternatively, the name may simply have been topographic. Compare Demaray , Demaree , and Demorest .
History: The progenitor of many of the American Demarests was David Demarest from France, who settled in NY (and later in NJ) in the second half of the 17th century. His father's surname was DesMarets. David Demarest is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors (as David Demarêts or Demarest or des Marêts or des Marest) and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America (as David des Marest).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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