When Margaret Simmons was born in July 1854, in Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States, her father, Elisha Simmons, was 36 and her mother, Matilda Payne, was 35. She lived in Magisterial District 1, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1860.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English (southeastern): variant of Simon , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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