When Leonard L. Graves was born on 14 August 1868, in Hendricks, Indiana, United States, his father, Calvin Graves, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Frances Wren, was 24. He married Nettie Bell Lansberry on 30 September 1891, in Thorntown, Sugar Creek Township, Boone, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Washington Township, Boone, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Sugar Creek Township, Boone, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 25 January 1924, in Lebanon, Boone, Indiana, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Lebanon, Boone, Indiana, 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.
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English (northern and eastern England): variant of Grave , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: alternatively, a variant of Greaves or Grieves .
Altered form of German Greff , with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.
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