Brief Life History of Myrta J
When Myrta J Fife was born in December 1869, in Cheshire Township, Gallia, Ohio, United States, her father, Joseph Warren Fife, was 23 and her mother, Mary J Fife, was 20. She married Clement L. V. Caster on 5 July 1890, in Meigs, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Columbia Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States for about 30 years and Crestline, Jackson Township, Crawford, Ohio, United States in 1950. She died in 1956, at the age of 87, and was buried in Mount Olive Cemetery, Point Rock, Meigs, Ohio, United States.
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- Myrta Nicholson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Myrta J. Fife, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Myrta J. Fife Caster Nicholson, "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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the province and former kingdom of Fife in East Scotland, a name of obscure etymology. Tradition has it that the name is derived from an eponymous Fib, one of the seven sons of Cruithne, legendary founding father of the Picts.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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