Brief Life History of Alonzo
When Alonzo Pendley was born on 4 June 1869, in Indiana, United States, his father, John Pendlay, was 38 and his mother, Malinda Jane Owens, was 35. He married Temperence Jane Hawkins on 26 July 1905. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Columbia Township, Dubois, Indiana, United States for about 20 years. He died on 27 October 1908, in Dubois, Indiana, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Crystal, Columbia Township, Dubois, Indiana, United States.
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- Alonzo Pendley Or Peudley in household of John Pendley Or Peudley, "United States Census, 1900"
- Alozo Pendlay, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Alonzo Pendley, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English (Buckinghamshire): habitational name from Pendley Manor in Tring, Hertfordshire, named with the Old English personal name Penda + lēah ‘wood, (woodland) clearing’.
Probably an altered form of German Bendele or Bendle , Bendler .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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