When John Day was born on 22 December 1869, in Texas, United States, his father, James Robert Stribling Day, was 31 and his mother, Betty Elizabeth Weaver, was 28. He died on 27 January 1870, in Limestone, Texas, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Kirk, Limestone, Texas, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Limestone, Texas, United States
English: occupational name from Middle English day(e), dey(e) ‘dairyman or dairymaid’. Originally used only of women, it was later used of men with the sense ‘man in charge of the dairy cattle’. This is probably the most common source of the surname.
English: from the Middle English personal name Day(e) or Dey. In western England this is probably a pet form of David , but in northern England and perhaps elsewhere also it is a late Middle English variant of Daw, a pet form of Ralph (see Daw , Dakin ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh (see O'Dea ).
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