When Smith Samson Bills was born on 28 June 1832, in Vermont, United States, his father, Benjamin B. Bills, was 33 and his mother, Laura Stockwell, was 19. He married Elizabeth Jane Stull in 1854, in Greenup, Cumberland, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Diona, Coles, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 9 January 1905, in Otisville, Genesee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Hutton Township, Coles, Illinois, United States.
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The Anti-Slavery Society of Vermont was established in 1834. 100 people from different towns were at the first meeting, with the intent to abolish slavery.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (West Midlands): variant of Bill 1 and 2, with, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dutch: from bijl ‘axe’, used to denote someone who made or used axes.
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