When Frances Mary Jones was born in September 1856, in New Sharon, Franklin, Maine, United States, her father, Calvin Curtis Jones, was 7 and her mother, Mary Eudora Harding, was -6. She married Aaron Burnham Fox Jr in 1879, in Athens, Somerset, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Athens, Somerset, Maine, United States in 1880 and Warsaw, Somerset, Maine, United States in 1900. She died on 25 July 1907, in Pittsfield, Somerset, Maine, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Mount Rest Cemetery, Athens, Somerset, Maine, 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.
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.
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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