Brief Life History of Mattie
When Mattie Cheatham was born on 6 June 1865, in Kyle, Hays, Texas, United States, her father, William Edward Cheatham, was 27 and her mother, Josephine Amanda Nance, was 20. She married Oscar Graves Parke on 18 December 1884, in Kyle, Hays, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Travis, Texas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 2, Hays, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 3 February 1950, in Kyle, Hays, Texas, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Kyle Cemetery, Hays, Texas, United States.
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- Mrs O ? Parke, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mattie Cheatham, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Mattie Cheatham Parke, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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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.
1880
Historical Boundaries: 1880: Hays, Texas, United States
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire called Cheetham, apparently named with Celtic cēd ‘wood’ + Old English hām ‘homestead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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