Brief Life History of Ella Mathilda "Tillie"
When Ella Mathilda "Tillie" Hooper was born on 9 December 1863, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, her father, Edward Hooper, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Parcell, was 26. She died on 27 January 1869, in Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 5, and was buried in Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, United States.
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- Tillie Hooper, "BillionGraves Index"
- Ella Matilda Hooper, "Find A Grave Index"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English (southwestern): occupational name for a cooper, someone who fitted wooden or metal hoops on wooden casks and barrels, or a barrel-maker, from Middle English hoper, an agent derivative of hop ‘hoop, band’. Compare Cooper .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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