When Nancy Minerva Keen was born on 24 October 1868, in Texas, Missouri, United States, her father, Isaac Keen, was 38 and her mother, Phebe Margaret Simmons, was 34. She married George Porter Doss on 24 August 1884, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Berryville, Carroll, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Cabanal, Carroll, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 15 July 1952, in Marble, Madison, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Berryville, Carroll, Arkansas, 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.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
English: from the Middle English personal name Kene, a short form of Old English names formed with either Cēn- (from cēn ‘keen’) or Cyne- (from cyne-, combining form of cynn ‘kin, family’).
English: nickname from Middle English kene ‘wise, brave, proud, keen’.
Dutch and North German: from a pet form of the personal name Christianus (see Christian ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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