When William Armstrong Hendricks was born in 1869, in Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas, United States, his father, Gibson H Hendricks, was 39 and his mother, Sidney S West, was 29. He married Ida Mae Cohea on 3 November 1892, in Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Mayes, Oklahoma, United States in 1920 and Langley, Mayes, Oklahoma, United States in 1930. He died on 5 August 1938, in Craig, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Ketchum, Craig, Oklahoma, 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 Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889
Dutch and North German: patronymic from the personal name Hendrick . See also Hendriks .
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