When Eunice Rebecca Jenkins was born on 1 April 1868, in Lostcreek Township, Miami, Ohio, United States, her father, Hiram Timothy Jenkins, was 31 and her mother, Mary Ann Pence, was 25. She married Joseph Bridgeman Heaston on 3 September 1881, in Champaign, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Saint Paris, Jackson Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Johnson Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States in 1910. She died on 29 October 1918, in Lostcreek Township, Miami, Ohio, United States, at the age of 50.
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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 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.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English and Welsh: variant of Jenkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Jenkins is one of the most common surnames in England, especially southwestern England, but is also especially associated with Wales.
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