Brief Life History of Jessie
When Jessie Potter was born about 20 February 1869, in Holden, Johnson, Missouri, United States, her father, Joseph Potter, was 37 and her mother, Euphrasia Turner, was 32. She married David Leon Eves on 14 June 1898, in Holden, Johnson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Madison Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States for about 20 years and Lakin Township, Kearny, Kansas, United States in 1940. She died on 27 February 1952, in Lakin, Kearny, Kansas, United States, at the age of 83.
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- Jennie Potter, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jessie Potter - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth: about 20 February 1869; Holden, Madison Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States
- Legacy NFS Source: Jessie Potter - Individual or family possessions: death: 27 February 1952; Lakin, Kearny, Kansas, United States
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
1873
Historical Boundaries: 1873: Kearny, Kansas, United States* *Kearny eliminated 1883 1887: Kearny, Kansas, United States* *Kearny reestablished with its original borders in 1887
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
Name Meaning
English and Dutch; North German (Pötter): occupational name for a maker of drinking and storage vessels, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Middle Low German pot. In the Middle Ages the term covered workers in metal as well as earthenware and clay.
In some cases also an Americanized form (translation into English) of Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian Lončar ‘potter’ (see Loncar ), and probably also of cognates from some other languages, e.g. Czech Hrnčíř (see Hrncir ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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