Brief Life History of William James
When William James Piggott was born in December 1850, in Flushing, Flushing Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States, his father, Harrison Piggott, was 32 and his mother, Clementine Gordon, was 32. He married Mary Jane Morton on 24 August 1879, in Taylor, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Wilton Township, Muscatine, Iowa, United States in 1920 and Muscatine, Iowa, United States in 1925. He died in 1920, at the age of 70.
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- William J Piggott, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: William James Piggott - Government record: birth: 1850; Flushing, Belmont, Ohio, United States
- William Piggott, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1854
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
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 and Irish (of Norman origin): variant of Pickett .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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