Brief Life History of Jennie I
When Jennie I Witter was born in 1863, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, her father, Henry C. Witter, was 25 and her mother, Helen Mary Kirby, was 27. She married Hazael Parker Eddy on 18 November 1882, in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Hyde Park Township, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 7 May 1887, in Green Cove Springs, Clay, Florida, United States, at the age of 24.
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- Jennie Witter in household of Henry C Witter, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jennie I Witter - Published information: birth-name: Jennie I Witter
- Jennie I. Witter, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · Cleveland Police Department Established
The Cleveland Police Department was created under the Metropolitan Police Act by the Ohio General Assembly. It was headed by a board of police commissioners tasked with the job of appointing a superintendent and officers. The department had become more innovated, starting with adopting the callbox system, using police wagons, and forming mounted units. In 1903, the department was handed over to the city to fund and control it.
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.
Name Meaning
German: from an ancient Germanic personal name, composed of the elements wid(u) ‘wood, forest’ + hari ‘army’.
North German: occupational name for a whitewasher or plasterer, from Middle Low German witten ‘to make white’, or for a coiner, from witten ‘to determine the contents of gold or silver by boiling’.
English (Lancashire and Cheshire): variant of Whitter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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