Brief Life History of Lydia Jane
When Lydia Jane Morris was born on 4 July 1868, in Indiana, United States, her father, Isaac Morris, was 48 and her mother, Rachel Luckey, was 39. She married Richard Firman Hays in 1885, in Fortville, Vernon Township, Hancock, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Farmland, Monroe Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States in 1885 and Parker City, Monroe Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States in 1900. She died on 4 September 1935, in Richmond, Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Maxville, White River Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States.
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- Lyda Marris in household of Isaac Marris, "United States Census, 1870"
- Lydia J Morris, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Lydia Jane Morris Hayes, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from Maurice, an Old French personal name introduced to Britain by the Normans. It is derived from Latin Mauritius, a derivative of Maurus (see Moore ). This was the name of several early Christian saints. In some cases it may be a nickname of the same derivation for someone with a swarthy complexion.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muirghis, a variant of Ó Muirgheasa (see Morrissey ).
Welsh: Anglicized form of the personal name Meurig (from Latin Mauritius), which was gradually superseded in Wales by Morus, Morys, a derivative of the Anglo-Norman French form of the name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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