Brief Life History of Drusilla
When Drusilla Winans was born on 8 September 1869, in Iowa, United States, her father, John Halsey Winans, was 54 and her mother, Mahala Jane Isaac, was 37. She lived in Mills, Mills, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Carson Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1900. She died on 15 December 1903, in Carson, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Carson, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.
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- Drucilla Campbell, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Druella Winans, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Dunilla Winans, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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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.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Dutch Wynants or Wijnants: patronymic from the personal name Wynant, Wijnant (see Winand ).
History: American bearers of this surname are mostly if not all descended from Jan Wynants, who came to North America from the Netherlands c. 1662.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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