Brief Life History of Lucy
When Lucy Denny was born on 20 November 1869, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Johnathan Denney, was 47 and her mother, Agnes Thompson Winfree, was 41. She married Moses Simon Jared on 15 July 1888, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Putnam, Tennessee, United States in 1880. She died on 16 January 1891, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Buffalo Valley, Putnam, Tennessee, United States.
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- Lucy A Denny in household of Johnathan Denny, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Lucy Denny - Government record: Cemetery record or headstone: birth: 20 November 1869; Tennessee, United States
- Lucy A Denny Jared, "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.
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from Middle English Den(n)y, a pet form of the personal name Denis (see Dennis ). Compare Tenney .
English: habitational name from Danny in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, recorded as Danye in 1343. Alternatively, the name may arise from Denny in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, but no medieval evidence with a habitative preposition has been found in the case of the latter.
Scottish: habitational name from Denny in Stirlingshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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