Brief Life History of Zeporah
When Zeporah Piles was born on 22 March 1855, in Preston, Virginia, United States, her father, Hunter Thomas Piles Jr, was 68 and her mother, Mariah Riley, was 39. She married John Poling on 29 November 1871, in Preston, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Valley District, Preston, West Virginia, United States in 1880 and Ed, Västernorrland, Sweden in 1900. She died on 8 January 1904, in Preston, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Concord Cemetery, Newburg, Preston, West Virginia, United States.
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- Z. A. Poling, "United States Census, 1880"
- Zepparia Ann Piles, "West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928"
- Zeparah Piles, "West Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1776-1971"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Pyle , with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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