Brief Life History of Martha A.
When Martha A. Weeks was born in November 1869, in Township 5 Lower Fishing Creek, Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States, her father, Robert Silas II Weeks, was 44 and her mother, Celestia A P Leggett, was 44. She married Charles Thomas Lewis on 14 October 1886, in Roseneath, Halifax, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died in 1895, at the age of 26.
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- Martha Week in household of Silas Week, "United States Census, 1870"
- Pattie Weeks, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Pattie Weeks in entry for Pattie Harris, "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994"
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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.
1877 · Last Troops Leave
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Wicks .
Americanized form of Norwegian and Swedish Vik .
History: This surname was brought to North America independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One of the earliest on record is Leonard Weeks, who emigrated from Somerset, England, to Portsmouth, NH, some time before 1656. — William Weeks, recorded in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, MA, from 1653 onward, was probably a cousin or other relative of the John Wickes mentioned at Wickes .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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