When Giles Chapman Horton was born on 14 May 1848, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, his father, Andrew Horton, was 20 and his mother, Barsheba Dickerson, was 26. He married Mary Ann Martin on 9 September 1869, in Carroll, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Smyth, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Laurel Fork, Carroll, Virginia, United States for about 40 years. He died on 20 March 1927, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Carroll, Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
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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 (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as those in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English horh or horu ‘dirt, filth’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some may have different origins, including Horton in Gloucestershire, which may derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + tūn.
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