When Lilly May DeHart was born on 17 May 1868, in Switzerland, Indiana, United States, her father, William Graham DeHart, was 26 and her mother, Jane Lacock, was 23. She lived in Posey Township, Switzerland, Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 17 August 1877, at the age of 9, and was buried in Switzerland, Indiana, 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.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
French: habitational name, with fused preposition d(e) ‘from’, denoting someone from Uhart, the name of a few places in Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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