When Darcus Delany Tyson was born on 1 September 1854, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, her father, Wiley Mason Tyson, was 32 and her mother, Catharine Mercer, was 29. She married William M Gossett on 15 April 1875, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in District 1, Spencer, Kentucky, United States in 1860. She died on 9 October 1926, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Unity Cemetery, Graham, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: variant of Dyson (see Dye ).
English: nickname from Old French tison ‘firebrand’, perhaps for someone with a fiery temperament.
Americanized form of German Theissen or Theisen .
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