When Samuel Meredith Shockley was born on 21 November 1868, in Cedar Township, Cedar, Missouri, United States, his father, Caswell P Shockley, was 35 and his mother, Nancy Caroline Bryson, was 30. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870. He died on 5 September 1870, in Cedar Township, Cedar, Missouri, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Younger Cemetery, Stockton, Cedar, Missouri, United States.
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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.
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.
English: probably a habitational name from Shocklach in Cheshire, named in Old English with sceocca ‘goblin, evil spirit’ + læcc ‘boggy stream’. In the 17th century the name was common in Buckinghamshire, England.
History: Richard Shockley (born c. 1634, probably in Buckinghamshire, England) arrived in MD in 1671.
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