When Julia Decina Faunce was born in 1856, in Illinois, United States, her father, Noah Moody Faunce, was 59 and her mother, Sarah Ann Larkin, was 37. She married Alonzo Duffield about 1877, in Cumberland, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Effingham, Effingham, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Otego Township, Fayette, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 22 November 1930, in Brownstown, Fayette, Illinois, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Spring Point Township, Cumberland, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Fayette, Illinois, United States
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
English: nickname from Middle English faun, foun (Old French faon, foun) with genitival or, more likely, post-medieval excrescent -s, meaning ‘cub, young animal, young fallow deer’, perhaps for a lively, frisky youth. The same word was occasionally used as a personal name.
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