When Eliza Hollen Rayburn was born in 1858, in Pontotoc, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States, her father, Howell Adam Rayburn, was 40 and her mother, Mary Jane Ragland, was 37. She had at least 1 son and 5 daughters with Alexander Morgan. She lived in Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years. She died before 1900.
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Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
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.
Scottish: habitational name either from the lands of Ryburn in Dunlop (Ayrshire), or from Raeburn in Eskdale (Dumfriesshire), or from Raeburn in Annandale near Gretna (Dumfriesshire), all of which arise from Scots rae ‘roe-deer’ + burn ‘stream’.
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