When Catharine A. Ralston was born on 1 September 1847, in East Vincent Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Levi Ralston, was 21 and her mother, Phoebe Garber, was 26. She married Philip Eisenberg Heavner on 28 August 1865, in Trappe, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Vincent Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. She died on 2 November 1927, in Bridgeport, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Norristown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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Scottish: habitational name from Ralston (Renfrewshire), composed of the personal name Raoul, a vernacular form of Ralph , + Scots toun ‘farm, village’.
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