When Amanda Catharine Melton was born on 23 October 1840, in Mississippi, United States, her father, John Melton, was 40 and her mother, Mary McCraney, was 35. She married Benjamin Bedell Langham Jr. on 2 December 1866, in Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States for about 20 years and Justice Precinct 7, Henderson, Texas, United States in 1910. She died on 11 November 1929, at the age of 89.
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Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
"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 (northern): habitational name from any of various places, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Yorkshire, all of which have the same origin as Middleton , with Old English middel replaced by its Old Norse equivalent methal after the Scandinavian settlement of northern and eastern England.
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