When Cora Mahalie Hester was born on 19 September 1868, in Walton, Georgia, United States, her father, Barnett Foster Hester, was 22 and her mother, Sarah E. Hawk, was 23. She married Thomas Allen Malcolm on 7 October 1888, in Walton, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in District 503, Walton, Georgia, United States for about 30 years. She died on 21 January 1934, in Walton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Union Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Monroe, Walton, Georgia, United States.
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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.
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.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous beech tree, Middle Low German hēster, Middle High German heister ‘young tree (especially beech or oak)’. Compare Heister .
English: variant of Easter with prosthetic H-.
Irish (Mayo and Roscommon): possibly a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOistir ‘descendant of Oistir’, a personal name of unexplained etymology. However, without any early bearers in Gaelic sources, it may simply be the English name in Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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