Brief Life History of Emerine F
When Emerine F Marrs was born on 5 November 1868, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States, her father, Braxton Duncan Marrs, was 25 and her mother, Harriet Tennessee S E McClure, was 22. She married James Harvey Asbury in 1886, in McDowell, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Berwind, McDowell, West Virginia, United States in 1935 and Adkin District, McDowell, West Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 16 January 1943, in McDowell, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Vallscreek, McDowell, West Virginia, United States.
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- Emerine S Asberry in household of James H Asberry, "United States Census, 1910"
- Emarine Marrs, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
- Emma Ann Morris, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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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: variant of Marr , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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