When Sally Ewalt Adair was born on 7 August 1864, in Harrison, Kentucky, United States, her father, Robert Farris Adair, was 30 and her mother, Ellen Dowey, was 26. She married John Gass Towles on 18 March 1891, in Hamilton, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and Harrison, Texas, United States in 1938. She died on 11 May 1938, in Hutchison, Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 73.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"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."""
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Scottish (Galloway) and northern Irish: from the Scottish personal name Adair, a form of Edgar .
History: James Adair (c. 1709–83) was an ‘Indian trader’ in SC from 1735; he was born in Antrim, northern Ireland. Baron William Adair, from Scotland, also settled in SC at around the same period.
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