When James Wesley Ponder was born on 22 October 1861, in Mississippi, United States, his father, Sgt. Clisby Evans Ponder, was 22 and his mother, Sarah Bernice Stegall, was 21. He married Ann Carson on 14 August 1881, in Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 4, Tarrant, Texas, United States in 1900. He died on 25 December 1903, at the age of 42.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
"On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: ""The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."""
A new state constitution was passed in 1876, announcing the segregation of schools.
English (East Anglia): variant of Pounder 1.
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