When Mary Ellen Gabriel was born on 19 December 1856, in Bailey, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States, her father, William Phillip Gabriel, was 25 and her mother, Martha Ann Richardson, was 18. She married Enoch Ransom Snowden on 8 July 1872, in Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 15 January 1878, in Mississippi, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Fellowship Cemetery, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States.
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Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Ship Island was an important port for French Louisiana as it helped to establish the growth of the Gulf Coast. It is nicknamed “Plymouth Rock of the Gulf Coast.” Later it helped Union forces capture New Orleans and Mobile. Located there is Fort Massachusetts. In 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, volunteers from Connecticut were sent there. It was used as a place for the POW Confederate soldiers. This area was important to the Battle of Vicksburg and General Sheridan’s victory at Cedar Creek.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English, Scottish, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, West Indian (mainly Haiti), African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania), and Jewish; Hungarian (Gábriel): from the Hebrew personal name Gabri’el, composed of the elements geber ‘man’ and El ‘God’, hence ‘man of God’. This was borne by an archangel in the Bible (Daniel 8:16 and 9:21), who in the New Testament announced the impending birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26–38). It has been a comparatively popular personal name in all parts of Europe, among both Christians and Jews, during the Middle Ages and since (compare Michael and Raphael ). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Slovenian Gabrijel, and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Slovenian Gabrijelčič, Greek Gabrielis and Gabrielidis.
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