Brief Life History of May Lois
When May Lois Ellis was born on 24 May 1868, in Union Township, Van Buren, Missouri, United States, her father, George Washington Ellis, was 38 and her mother, Rhoda Ann Stratton, was 33. She married Isaac Arthur Nickell on 25 September 1885, in Wise, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Austin Township, Van Buren, Missouri, United States in 1876 and Methow, Okanogan, Washington, United States for about 10 years. She died on 13 June 1925, in Twisp, Okanogan, Washington, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Beaver Creek Cemetery, Twisp, Okanogan, Washington, United States.
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- Mary Lois Ellis in household of L* W Ellis, "Missouri State and Territorial Census Records, 1732-1933"
- May Lois Thurlow, "Washington Deaths and Burials, 1810-1960"
- May L Ellis in entry for Clara B Thurlow, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
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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.
1889 · Washington Becomes a State
On November 11, 1889, Washington Territory became Washington State the 42nd state to enter the Union. The state was named in honor of George Washington.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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