Brief Life History of Lemuel Dewitt
When Lemuel Dewitt Peter was born on 23 June 1868, in Agency, Buchanan, Missouri, United States, his father, Lemuel Peter, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Reed, was 32. He married Gosha Leota Buzzard on 19 October 1898, in Garfield, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Logan Township, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years and Washington Township, Buchanan, Missouri, United States in 1920. He died on 24 February 1934, in Hughesville, Pettis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Agency Cemetery, Agency, Buchanan, Missouri, United States.
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- Lemuel Peter in household of Samuel Peter, "United States Census, 1870"
- Lemuel D Peter, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Lemuel D. Peter Jr, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Kurt, Otto, Ernst, Fritz, Heinz, Helmut, Horst, Kaspar, Klaus, Siegfried, Wolfgang.
English, Scottish, German, Dutch, French (Alsace and Lorraine), Czech (Moravian), Slovak, Croatian, and Slovenian; Hungarian (Péter): from the personal name Peter (Greek Petros, from petra ‘rock’). The personal name was popular throughout Christian Europe in the Middle Ages, having been bestowed by Christ as a byname on the apostle Simon bar Jonah, the brother of Andrew. The name was chosen by Christ for its symbolic significance (John 1:42, Matt. 16:18); Saint Peter is regarded as the founding head of the Christian Church in view of Christ's saying, ‘Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church’. In Christian Germany in the early Middle Ages this was the most frequent personal name of non-ancient Germanic origin until the 14th century. In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages, for example Czech Petr , Polish Piotr and Pietr, Albanian Pjetri (from the personal name Pjetër, definite form Pjetri), and also their derivatives (see examples at Peterson ). It has also been adopted as a surname by Ashkenazic Jews.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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