When Nancy Emenaline Pettit was born on 10 August 1850, in Murray, Georgia, United States, her father, Isaac Pettit, was 22 and her mother, Emily Elmina Pilgrim, was 19. She married Marion Taylor Osborn on 6 November 1870, in Murray, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in District 824, Murray, Georgia, United States in 1900 and District 1291, Murray, Georgia, United States in 1910. She died on 22 December 1920, in Murray, Georgia, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Chatsworth, Murray, Georgia, United States.
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Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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 (mainly southeastern): variant of Petit .
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