When Sarah Frances Houston was born in July 1852, in Indiana, United States, her father, Robert Houston, was 32 and her mother, Minerva Lemon, was 21. She married Thomas Hovious in 1858, in Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Monroe, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Hindustan, Washington Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died on 31 August 1915, in Bloomington, Perry Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Bloomington Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States.
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The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Scottish: habitational name from the barony of Houston (Renfrewshire), from the genitive case of the personal name Hugh + Middle English, Older Scots ton ‘town, village, settlement’ (Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’). The landlord in question was a certain Hugo de Paduinan, who held the place c. 1160. The Scottish surname is also common in Ulster.
Irish: variant of McCutcheon from Mac Uisdein or Mac Uistein.
History: In 1836 the newly founded city of Houston, TX, was named in honor of Sam Houston (1793–1863), soldier and statesman. As commander in chief of the Texan army he achieved Texas independence from Mexico by routing the army of the Mexican general Santa Anna. His ancestors were Ulster Scots who had emigrated to Philadelphia, PA, in the 18th century.
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