When Adaline Carrie Copeland was born on 20 February 1863, in Franklin, Indiana, United States, her father, Craven C. Copeland, was 38 and her mother, Frances Ribble, was 34. She married Earley Boon Meeker on 10 October 1886, in Cumberland, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Crooked Creek Township, Cumberland, Illinois, United States for about 50 years. She died on 23 April 1953, in Cuero, DeWitt, Texas, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Cuero, DeWitt, Texas, United States.
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"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."""
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
English and Scottish: habitational name from Copeland in Cumbria or Coupland in Northumberland, both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’, a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages, when land was rarely sold, but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.
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