When Emma Cecelia Blair was born in 1856, in Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Alexander Martin Blair, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Sanders Fisher, was 27. She lived in Orange Township, Hancock, Ohio, United States in 1870 and Colfax Township, Wilson, Kansas, United States in 1880. She died in 1890, at the age of 34, and was buried in Zion Cemetery, Chanute, Neosho, Kansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1856: Allen, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Allen, Kansas, United States 1865: Neosho, Kansas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain, field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár). There were families of this name in the Middle Ages taking their names from any of the places called Blair in Dysart parish Fife, Dalry parish Ayrshire, and Blairgowrie in Perthshire.
Americanized form of French Belair and Blais .
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