When Rebecca Nigogos Sherinian was born on 24 January 1868, in Zara, Sivas, Türkiye, her father, Nigogos Malcon Sherinian, was 24 and her mother, Sarpoohy Khachig Sheranian, was 18. She married Nishan Krikor Sheranian on 23 November 1886, in Zara, Zara, Sivas, Türkiye. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 1 January 1928, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
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.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Biblical name, from the Latin form of the Hebrew name Rebekah, borne by the wife of Isaac, who was the mother of Esau and Jacob (Genesis 24–27). The Hebrew root occurs in the Bible only in the vocabulary word marbek ‘cattle stall’, and its connection with the name is doubtful. In any case, Rebecca was Aramean, and the name probably has a source in Aramaic. It has always been common as a Jewish name; in England and elsewhere it began to be used also by Christians from the 14th century onwards and especially at the time of the Reformation, when Old Testament names became popular. It was very common among the Puritans in the 17th century, and has enjoyed a tremendous vogue in England since the latter part of the 20th century, among people of many different creeds. In Scotland this is found as an Anglicized form of Beathag .
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
"Mother was considered to be the most expert of all rug weavers in all of Sivas County in Turkish Armenia which was then the center of the rug weaving industry. She was unusually crafty and quick wit …
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