Dicy Lavina Cunnyngham

Female22 February 1869–1 January 1954

Brief Life History of Dicy Lavina

When Dicy Lavina Cunnyngham was born on 22 February 1869, in Morrisville, Polk, Missouri, United States, her father, James H W Cunnyngham, was 25 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Ruyle, was 24. She married Oscar C. Jackson on 2 February 1892, in Morrisville, Polk, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Looney Township, Polk, Missouri, United States for about 30 years. She died on 1 January 1954, in Morrisville, Polk, Missouri, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Morrisville Cemetery, Morrisville, Polk, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Oscar C. Jackson
1866–1954
Dicy Lavina Cunnyngham
1869–1954
Marriage: 2 February 1892
Fern Winona Jackson
1894–1951

Sources (5)

  • Lavinia D Jackson in household of Oscar C Jackson, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Lavina Jackson dans le foyer de Oscar C Jackson, "Recensement des États-Unis, 1900"
  • Lavina Jackson in household of Oscar C Jackson, "United States Census, 1900"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    2 February 1892Morrisville, Polk, Missouri, United States

    • Children (1)

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    Siblings (4)

    World Events (8)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Age 1

    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

    Age 1

    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.

    1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Age 27

    A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

    Name Meaning

    Scottish: habitational name from the province of Cunningham in Ayrshire, first recorded in 1153 in the form Cunegan, a Celtic name of uncertain origin. The spellings in -ham, first recorded in 1180, and in -ynghame, first recorded in 1227, represent a gradual assimilation to the English placename element -ingham.

    Irish: surname adopted from Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader, chief’. This name is also adopted for Ó Connacháin, a variant of Ó Connagáin ‘descendant of Connagán’, from a diminutive of the personal name Conn.

    History: A family of this name (see 1 above) can be traced back to Wernebald de Cunynghame, who was granted the manor of Cunningham by Hugh de Morville in the early 12th century.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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