When Lillie Nicholas Fittz was born on 2 September 1867, in Petersburg, Dinwiddie, Virginia, United States, her father, Alexander LaKergus Fittz, was 25 and her mother, Laura L. Ruffin, was 23. She married Walter Lee Broadwell on 22 October 1889, in Petersburg, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 11 February 1894, in Petersburg, Virginia, United States, at the age of 26.
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Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
As one of the Reconstruction Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment addresses the rights and protections that all citizens of the United States have. The amendment also limits actions of state and local officials in all states.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
German: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of felt.
German: unflattering nickname for a stingy, coarse person.
South German: topographic name from Middle High German vilz ‘swamp’ or habitational name from any of the places called Filz (Rhineland-Palatinate) or Vilz (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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