Brief Life History of Erastus W.
When Erastus W. Headley was born on 26 September 1868, in Guernsey, Ohio, United States, his father, Eli Headley, was 24 and his mother, Catherine, was 22. He married Elva Inez Cale in 1892. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 10 daughters. He lived in Union Township, Licking, Ohio, United States in 1870 and Cambridge Township, Guernsey, Ohio, United States in 1900. He died on 5 February 1918, in Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Northwood Cemetery, Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio, United States.
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- Erastus W Headlee in household of Eli Headlee, "United States Census, 1870"
- Erastes Headley, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Ew Headley, "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Hedley (Durham), Hedley on the Hill (Northumberland), Headley (Yorkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Worcestershire), or Headley Hall in Bramham (Yorkshire). The placenames derive from Old English hǣth ‘heath, heather’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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