Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Jackson was born on 29 October 1869, in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Jonathan Jackson, was 33 and her mother, Alice Robinson, was 29. She married James Edward Turner Sr. on 4 April 1889, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949 and Washington, Washington, Utah, United States in 1950. She died on 27 January 1953, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Washington, Washington, Utah, United States.
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- Mary J Turner, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Elizabeth Jackson - Individual or family possessions: birth: 29 October 1869; Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
- Mary Elizabeth Jackson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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World Events (8)
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
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from Jack . In North America, this surname has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages, in particular those derived from equivalents or short forms and other derivatives of the personal name Jacob , e.g. Norwegian Jacobsen or Jakobsen and, in some cases, Slovenian Jakše (from a derivative of the personal name Jakob ). This surname is also very common among African Americans (see also 2 below).
African American: from the personal name Jackson (or Andrew Jackson), adopted in honor of Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the US; or adoption of the surname in 1 above, in many cases probably for the same reason.
History: This extremely common British name was brought over by numerous different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One forebear was the father and namesake of the seventh US president, Andrew Jackson, who migrated to SC from Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland in 1765. The Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson came from VA, where his great-grandfather John, likewise of Scotch–Irish stock, had settled after emigrating to America in 1748.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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