When Green Spencer McCleskey was born on 25 December 1855, in Hall, Georgia, United States, his father, John Louis McCleskey, was 24 and his mother, Emily Narcissus Jackson, was 20. He married Martha Jane Rhoades about 1885, in Coryell, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in High Rolls, Otero, New Mexico, United States in 1910. He died on 25 June 1911, in Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in King Cemetery, King, Coryell, Texas, 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.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Irish: variant of McCloskey .
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