When William Dillard Foreman was born on 19 September 1855, in Cherokee, Texas, United States, his father, Green Lucas Foreman, was 36 and his mother, Julia Ann Hennis, was 30. He lived in Liberty, Texas, United States in 1860 and Bell, Texas, United States in 1870. He died on 23 February 1881, at the age of 25.
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On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
"On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: ""The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."""
English: variant of Forman 1 and 2.
Altered form of North German Formann, a variant of Fuhrmann or Fohrman .
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