When William Andrew Barnett was born on 8 November 1868, in South Carolina, United States, his father, Ebenezer R Barnett, was 21 and his mother, Mahala Evans, was 24. He married Margaret LouVenia Bennett on 21 November 1893, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Terminus, DeKalb, Georgia, United States in 1908 and Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1910. He died on 21 May 1912, in Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 43.
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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.
In March of 1871, in an attempt to supress the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, President Grant sends troops in. Later that year in October, the KKK are told to disarm and break up. They do not do this and later many are arrested by the US marshals.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English: habitational name from various places, for example Chipping (High) Barnet, East Barnet, and Friern Barnet in Greater London, named with Old English bærnet ‘place cleared by burning’ (a derivative of bærnan ‘to burn, to set light to’).
English (of Norman origin): from a medieval personal name, a variant of Bernard .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): this surname has been adopted by Ashkenazic Jews in the English-speaking world, perhaps as an Anglicized form of a vaguely similar Jewish name such as Baruch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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