Brief Life History of Lucy E.
When Lucy E. Williams was born on 1 April 1857, in Beattyville, Lee, Kentucky, United States, her father, George Samuel Williams, was 40 and her mother, Sarah Ermine Eveline Akers, was 33. She married John Morrison Smyth on 27 November 1875, in Lee, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Owsley, Kentucky, United States in 1860. She died on 22 December 1887, in Lee, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 30.
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- Lucy Williams in household of George Williams, "United States Census, 1870"
- Lucy E Smyth en el registro de C B Smyth y Lucy E Cox, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Lucy Williams in entry for B H Coffman and Lola Profitt, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English: variant of William , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America, this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages, such as Dutch Willems . Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
History: This surname was brought to North America from southern England and Wales independently by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, came to MA in 1630, but the clergyman was banished from the colony for his criticism of the Puritan government; he fled to RI and founded Providence.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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