Brief Life History of Nancy
When Nancy Curtis was born on 20 March 1868, in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, her father, Joseph Rensselaer Curtis, was 30 and her mother, Elvira Brogan, was 32. She married Henry Zerbe on 19 February 1889, in Linn, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Jefferson, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States in 1880 and Jackson Township, Linn, Iowa, United States in 1900. She died on 11 May 1919, in Sturgis, Meade, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Vale Cemetery, Vale, Butte, South Dakota, United States.
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- Mancy Curtis in household of Joseph Curtis, "United States Census, 1870"
- Nancy Curtis, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Nancy Curtis Zerbe-Van Sickel, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a refined person, sometimes perhaps given ironically, from Middle English, Old French courteis, courtois, curtis ‘courtly, refined, urbane’ (derivative of Old French court; see Court 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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