When William Allen Gann was born on 20 January 1847, in Paulding, Georgia, United States, his father, Hiram Gann, was 22 and his mother, Elizabeth Goggans, was 20. He married Rebecca Hughes on 22 October 1867, in Marion, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 2, Tom Green, Texas, United States in 1910 and Allen, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. He died on 3 February 1925, in Ada, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Oakman Cemetery, Oakman, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, United States.
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Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
Irish: shortened form of McGann , from Mag Gana.
German: from the personal name Gano, or, in Austria, a short form of Candidus, a personal name from Latin candidus ‘bright, white, clear, beautiful’ (see Kann ).
German: topographic name for someone who lived near an expanse of scree, Middle High German gant.
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