When George Washington Harper was born on 7 March 1868, in Madison, Illinois, United States, his father, James Harper, was 39 and his mother, Rebecca Rushing, was 37. He married Louella Ardinna Holland on 24 June 1888, in Stone, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Union Township, Stone, Arkansas, United States in 1910 and Stone, Arkansas, United States in 1920. He died on 3 October 1929, in Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, 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.
Historical Boundaries 1873: Stone, Arkansas, United States
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English (Staffordshire), Scottish, Irish (Antrim and Down), and Dutch: occupational name for a player on the harp, from Middle English harper(e) ‘harper’ (Old English hearpere) and Middle Dutch harper, herper. The harper was one of the most important figures of a medieval baronial hall, especially in Scotland and northern England, and the office of harper was sometimes hereditary. The Scottish surname is probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Chruiteir ‘son of the harper’ (from Gaelic cruit ‘harp’, ‘stringed instrument’). This surname has long been present in Ireland.
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