When Jacob Avro Moore was born on 2 August 1868, in Blacksburg, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States, his father, Jacob Brown Moore, was 20 and his mother, Cintha Caldonia Spake, was 18. He married Sarah Emma Wright on 25 November 1888, in Henderson, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons. He lived in Broad River Township, McDowell, North Carolina, United States in 1910 and Shelby, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States in 1920. He died on 24 March 1939, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Fairview, Buncombe, North Carolina, 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.
In March of 1871, in an attempt to supress the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, President Grant sends troops in. Later that year in October, the KKK are told to disarm and break up. They do not do this and later many are arrested by the US marshals.
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.
English: from Middle English more ‘moor, marsh, fen’ (Old English mōr), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in such a place, or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word, as for example Moore in Cheshire or More in Shropshire.
English (of Norman origin): ethnic name from Old French more ‘Moor’, either someone from North Africa or, more often, a nickname for someone thought to resemble a Moor. Compare Morrell and Moreau .
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English personal name More (Old French More, Maur, Latin Maurus), originally denoting either ‘Moor’ or someone with a swarthy complexion (compare Morrell , Morrin , Morris , and sense 2 above). There was a 6th-century Christian saint of this name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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