Brief Life History of Geneva
When Geneva Kester was born on 8 May 1868, in Cardington, Morrow, Ohio, United States, her father, Jonathan Kester, was 45 and her mother, Hannah Margaret Singer, was 36. She married Phillip Sanderson Gallaspie on 17 June 1904, in Morrow, Ohio, United States. She lived in Cardington Township, Morrow, Ohio, United States in 1870. She died on 17 January 1936, in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Jennie Hester in household of Jonathan Hester, "United States Census, 1870"
- Kester, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Geneva Kester, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
Dutch (also Van Kester) and German: habitational name from any of the places with a name formed with kester, from Latin castra ‘army camp’, like Kester in Belgian Brabant or Kesteren in the Betuwe.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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