When Sophronia Adaline Peters was born on 26 October 1851, in Moniteau, Missouri, United States, her father, David Byler Peters, was 46 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Taliaferro, was 37. She married Richard Henry Taliaferro on 5 January 1875, in Jackson, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Jackson, Alabama, United States in 1880 and Paint Rock, Jackson, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1911, at the age of 60, and was buried in Gurley, Madison, Alabama, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . This surname (mainly of German origin) is also found in Sweden, Denmark, France (Alsace and Lorraine), and some other European countries. In North America it has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, such as Albanian Pjetraj and Pjetrushi, patronymics from the personal name Pjetër ‘Peter’ and its pet form Pjetrush; see also below and also examples at Peterson .
Irish: Anglicized form (translation) of Gaelic Mac Pheadair ‘son of Peter’.
Americanized form of Dutch and North German Pieters .
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