Brief Life History of Hannah May
When Hannah May Douglass was born about 1870, in Illinois, United States, her father, Erastus Thomas Douglas, was 32 and her mother, Sarah L Parker, was 28. She married Preston B Eaton from 1878 to 1904, in Vermilion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Georgetown, Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Danville Township, Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died on 8 October 1942, in Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Fairmont, Madison, Illinois, United States.
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- Hannah Eaton in household of Preston Eaton, "United States Census, 1930"
- Hannah May Eaton, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Hannah M Douglass, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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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.
1875
In 1875 the voters of the county of Madison adopted the township system of county government.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Durham and Northumbria): variant of Douglas .
History: William Douglass, a physician recognized for his identification and description of an epidemic of scarlet fever, was born c. 1691 in Gifford, Haddington County, Scotland, and settled in Boston in 1718. The abolitionist, orator, and journalist Frederick Douglass assumed the name after escaping from slavery in 1838 and traveling to Massachusetts. Son of a white father and a slave with some Indian blood, he was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey c. 1817 in Tuckahoe, MD.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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