When Laura Emily Shepperd was born on 4 February 1855, in Hopkins, Texas, United States, her father, Elijah Byrd Shepperd, was 42 and her mother, Martha Adeline Mings, was 38. She married Wiley R Morris on 20 January 1876, in Hunt, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Upshur, Texas, United States in 1860 and Justice Precinct 3, Van Zandt, Texas, United States in 1910. She died on 16 December 1928, in Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Fargo, Wilbarger, Texas, United States.
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Historical boundaries: 1858: Young Territory, Texas, United States 1858: Wilbarger, Texas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: variant of Shepherd .
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