Brief Life History of Ralph Miller
When Ralph Miller Pickell was born on 23 September 1869, in Missouri, United States, his father, William Miller Pickell, was 24 and his mother, Jane Elizabeth Riggs, was 21. He married Daisy Lenore Gordon on 22 December 1901, in Columbia, Boone, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Gomer Township, Caldwell, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 2 February 1954, in Kirksville, Adair, Missouri, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Kirksville, Adair, Missouri, United States.
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- R. M. Pickell, "United States Census, 1950"
- Ralph M Pickell, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Ralph Miller Pickell, "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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German, Dutch, and Jewish Pickel .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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