Brief Life History of Edwin Alonzo
When Edwin Alonzo Lowery was born on 2 February 1868, in Pike, Alabama, United States, his father, Asa DeKalb Lowery, was 33 and his mother, Samantha Gibson, was 25. He married Lydia Ada Whitaker on 25 May 1899, in Coffee, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 10 Victoria, Coffee, Alabama, United States in 1900 and Victoria, Coffee, Alabama, United States for about 30 years. He died on 9 December 1957, in Pike, Alabama, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in New Hope Cemetery, New Hope, Coffee, Alabama, United States.
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- E A Lawry, "United States Census, 1940"
- E.A. Lowery, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
- E. A. Lowery, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
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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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Labhradha (see Lavery ).
English (northern) and Scottish: from a pet form of Lawrence .
English (southwestern): from Lowery in Devon, named with the Old English personal name Lēofa or Lufa + Old English worthig ‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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