When Edward Jackson Simmons Sr was born on 7 September 1863, in Springdale, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Wesley Simmons, was 36 and his mother, Emily B Stone, was 31. He had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with Minnie Lee Powell. He lived in Grayson, Texas, United States in 1900 and Justice Precinct 4, Grayson, Texas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 12 November 1932, in Van Alstyne, Grayson, Texas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Cannon Cemetery, Cannon, Grayson, Texas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: ""The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."""
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English (southeastern): variant of Simon , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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