Brief Life History of Viola Althea
When Viola Althea Woodward was born on 2 June 1848, in Sandgate, Bennington, Vermont, United States, her father, Dr Alpheus J Woodward, was 31 and her mother, Luceba Parker, was 29. She married William James Hamilton on 24 March 1867, in Sandgate, Bennington, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States in 1920. She died on 22 October 1928, in Sunderland, Bennington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Sandgate Center Cemetery, Sandgate, Bennington, Vermont, United States.
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- Viola Hamelton in household of William Hamelton, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Viola Althea Woodward - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Viola Althea Woodward
- Viola A Woodard Hamilton, "Find A Grave Index"
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1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a forester employed to look after the trees and game in a forest, Middle English woodward (from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + weard ‘guardian, protector’).
History: Henry Woodward emigrated from England in 1635 and settled first in Dorchester, MA, and subsequently in Northampton, MA. He had many prominent descendants. Another Henry Woodward, born c. 1646 in the British West Indies, was the first English settler in SC (1664).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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