Brief Life History of Rebecca Jane
When Rebecca Jane Staggs was born on 4 December 1853, in Hampshire, Virginia, United States, her father, John Staggs, was 39 and her mother, Mary Greenwalt, was 34. 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 Barry, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Barry Township, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1900. 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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- Rebeckah J. Sellers in household of Hommer Sellers, "United States Census, 1880"
- Rebecca Jane Sellers, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Rebecca Y Staggs, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1871
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.
Name Meaning
English (Middlesex and Essex): variant of Stagg , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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