Brief Life History of Cynthia Belle
When Cynthia Belle Wilcox was born on 13 October 1869, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, her father, Albert Richard Wilcox, was 25 and her mother, Susan Drake, was 22. She married Hamilton C Downey on 10 January 1889, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 1, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Bremen, Logan, Kentucky, United States for about 20 years. She died on 6 September 1934, at the age of 64, and was buried in Bremen, Logan, Kentucky, United States.
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- Cince B Downey in household of Haninble C Downey, "United States Census, 1920"
- Cynthia I Wilcox, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Cynthia Belle Downey, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
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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.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Flintshire): variant of Wilcock , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is based on the pronunciation.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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