When Lucy Ann Wiley was born on 24 March 1862, in Texas, United States, her father, Alfred Henderson Wyly, was 53 and her mother, Josephine Louise Burke, was 34. She married William B James on 10 April 1877, in Hopkins, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Justice Precinct 3, Hopkins, Texas, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 6, Hopkins, Texas, United States for about 50 years. She died on 25 March 1947, in Pickton, Hopkins, Texas, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Pickton, Hopkins, Texas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
"On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: ""The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."""
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: from various places called with Old English wīg, wēoh ‘idol’ + lēah ‘wood, clearing’, such as Whyly in East Hoathly (Sussex), Whiligh in Ticehurst (Sussex), Weeley (Essex), Weoley (Worcestershire), and Willey (Surrey), or from any of the other places called Willey, such as those in Cheshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Warwickshire, named with Old English wilig ‘willow’ + lēah, or from Wylye (Wiltshire), which takes its name from the river Wylye (of uncertain etymology).
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