Brief Life History of Malinda Bell
When Malinda Bell Holder was born on 22 February 1868, in Davis Township, Caldwell, Missouri, United States, her father, William Anderson Holder, was 27 and her mother, Paulina Davis, was 22. She lived in Missouri, United States in 1870.
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- Malinda B Holder in household of Wm A Holder, "United States Census, 1880"
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- Malinda B Holder in household of Wm Holder, "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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
German: topographic name for someone who lived by an elder tree, Middle High German holder, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house named for its sign of an elder tree. In same areas, for example Alsace, the elder tree was believed to be protective of a house.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Holder ‘elder tree’.
English: status or occupational name from Middle English holdere, haldere, heldere ‘tenant; servant, retainer; laborer’, an agent derivative of holden ‘to hold’ (Old English healdan). Compare Helder 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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