Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Bess was born on 30 November 1869, in Yount, Perry, Missouri, United States, his father, Levi Bess, was 27 and his mother, Mary Ann Elvira Sarah Elizabeth Halbrook, was 22. He married Lenora Dean Williams on 17 November 1895, in Mine La Motte, Madison, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in St. Francois, St. Francois, Missouri, United States in 1930 and United States in 1949. He died on 21 July 1953, in Flat River, St. Francois, Missouri, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Parkview Cemetery, Farmington, St. Francois, Missouri, United States.
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- Henry Bess, "United States 1950 Census"
- Henry Bess, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Henry Bess, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
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 (Devon): possibly a variant of Biss .
Altered form of German Boesch .
In some cases possibly also be an altered form of French Besse .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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