When Gillie Ann Elizabeth Beckner was born on 18 April 1848, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, her father, Abner Beckner, was 28 and her mother, Martha Frances Angle, was 19. She married William James Pinckard Sr on 2 February 1869, in Franklin, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in West District, Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Brown Hill District, Franklin, Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 16 September 1937, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Ferrum, Franklin, Virginia, 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.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
German: variant of Böckner (and, in North America, also an altered form of this), a habitational name for someone from any of the places named Böcken, from Middle Low German boke, böke ‘beech tree’.
Americanized form of German Bechner, a very rare variant of Becher 2.
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