When James Knox Polk Royce was born in 1849, in Fleming, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Royse, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Rebecca Reeves, was 44. He married Sabra Jane Johnson Brown about 1868, in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons. He lived in Rowan, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Camargo, Montgomery, Kentucky, United States in 1910. He died in 1928, in Fleming, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Fleming County Cemetery, Flemingsburg, Fleming, Kentucky, United States.
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According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
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.
English: variant of Rose .
Americanized form of German Reuss .
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