When Susan Highsmith was born on 3 February 1852, in Ware, Georgia, United States, her father, Isaac Hampton Highsmith, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Ann Lewis, was 21. She had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters with Joseph Hiers Strickland. She lived in District 335, Wayne, Georgia, United States in 1880. She died in 1912, in Wayne, Georgia, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Brantley, Georgia, United States.
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Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
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.
English: occupational name for a smith, with the distinguishingepithet high, probably denoting one whose forge was at a higherlocation than another nearby smith.
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