Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Proffit was born on 29 March 1869, her father, Alexander Proffit, was 41 and her mother, Mary Polly Owens, was 45. She married Granville Pearl Johnson on 4 September 1888, in London, Laurel, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Laurel, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and London, Laurel, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. She died on 4 September 1937, at the age of 68, and was buried in London, Laurel, Kentucky, United States.
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- Elizabeth Johnson in household of Liamril P Johnson, "United States Census, 1910"
- Elizabeth Proffit, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Elizabeth Proffitt Johnson, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
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: variant of Proffitt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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