When Anna Laura Stowers was born on 25 May 1867, in Turtle Creek, Boone, West Virginia, United States, her father, Joseph E Stowers, was 36 and her mother, Martha Ann Payne, was 33. She married Isaac Soloman Bays on 6 July 1880, in Lincoln, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Washington District, Boone, West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Curry District, Putnam, West Virginia, United States in 1910. She died on 16 January 1930, in Big Creek, Logan, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Bays Cemetery, Eggleton, Putnam, West Virginia, United States.
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Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
As one of the Reconstruction Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment addresses the rights and protections that all citizens of the United States have. The amendment also limits actions of state and local officials in all states.
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habitational name from the River Stour in Essex, named with a word related to the ancient Germanic root stūr- ‘strong, stiff, fierce’. The surname has since developed a post-medieval excrescent -s.
variant of Stower, with post-medieval excrescent -s, itself a variant of Storr . In some cases Stower is also a habitational name from Stour Provost, East and West Stour, or Stourpaine (Dorset), named from the River Stour (see above). The name may also have originated from the Norman French personal name Stur (Old Norse Sture, of uncertain etymology but possibly related to stórr ‘big’), but it is not known if this survived as a hereditary surname.
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