Brief Life History of John Ryland or Rawlings
When John Ryland or Rawlings Henshaw was born on 20 May 1868, in King William, Virginia, United States, his father, Eugene Henshaw Sr, was 35 and his mother, Willie Ann Saunders, was 31. He married Ida Lee Boulware on 4 February 1894, in Chesterfield, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Namozine District, Dinwiddie, Virginia, United States for about 20 years and Richmond, Virginia, United States in 1954. He died on 28 February 1954, in Dinwiddie, Virginia, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, Virginia, United States.
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- John R Henshaw, "United States Census, 1930"
- John Henshaw, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
- John R Hershaw, "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989"
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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.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
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.
1894 · Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument
On May 30, 18944 the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument was unveiled. It is 73 feet high and over looks Libby Hill Park. the statue represents the 13 Confederate States.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire):
habitational name from Henshaw in Prestbury (Cheshire), from Old English henn ‘hen’ + sceaga ‘copse, small wood’.
habitational name from Henshaw (Northumberland), possibly from the Old Norse personal name Hethinn (genitive Hethinns) + Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’. See Hensell , of which Henshaw is sometimes a variant.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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