Brief Life History of Margaret Ellen
When Margaret Ellen Barnes was born on 3 September 1869, in Reynolds, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Stinson Barnes, was 34 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Eddings, was 30. She married Elbridge Claywell Bowers on 21 April 1889, in Reynolds, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Logan Township, Reynolds, Missouri, United States for about 30 years and Ellington, Ripley, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 16 November 1951, in Reynolds, Missouri, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Ellington, Ripley, Missouri, United States.
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- Margret Bowers in household of Elbridge Bowers, "United States Census, 1920"
- Margaret E Bowers, "Find A Grave Index"
- Margaret Barnes in household of Thomas Barnes, "United States Census, 1870"
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World Events (8)
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
English: habitational name from Barnes (on the Surrey bank of the Thames in London), named with Old English bere-ærn ‘barn, a storehouse for barley and other grain’, or a topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or worked at a barn or barns, from Middle English barn ‘barn, granary’.
English: variant of Barne, with excrescent -s, derived from either the Middle English personal name Bern, Barn (based on the Scandinavian personal name Biǫrn or Old English Beorn, both from a word meaning ‘warrior’), or from Middle English barn (Old Norse barn) ‘child’. The latter term is found as a byname for men of the upper classes; it might also have had the meaning ‘young man of a prominent family’, like Middle English child (see Child ).
Irish: in Ireland in many cases this is no doubt the English name, but in others it is possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bearáin ‘descendant of Bearán’, a byname meaning ‘spear’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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