When Sonora Belle Douglas was born on 31 March 1859, in Rising Sun, Randolph Township, Ohio, Indiana, United States, her father, Thomas Jefferson Douglas, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Jenkins, was 25. She married Albert Taylor Winn on 26 March 1878, in Cave-in-Rock, Hardin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Sellers, Champaign, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Cave-In-Rock Precinct, Hardin, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 18 September 1944, in Cave-in-Rock, Hardin, Illinois, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Cave-in-Rock, Hardin, Illinois, United States.
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Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is Douglas in Lanarkshire 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers.
History: The family taking their name from Douglas in Lanarkshire were of Flemish origin. They rose to great prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, controlling the earldoms of Douglas, Morton, and Angus, and later, Queensberry.
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