Rebecca Jane Staggs was born on 4 December 1853, in Hampshire, Virginia, United States as the daughter of John Staggs and Mary J Hernale. She married George Homer Sellers on 13 March 1879, in Pike, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Township of Barry, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Payson, Adams, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 12 April 1921, in Plainville, Adams, Illinois, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Plainville, Adams, Illinois, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
English (Middlesex and Essex): variant of Stagg , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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