When Samuel Davis Botkin was born on 3 March 1849, in Ohio, United States, his father, James Botkin, was 31 and his mother, Lucinda A. Rush, was 31. He married Mary Cornelia Rynerson on 13 September 1871, in Tazewell, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Bethany Township, Osborne, Kansas, United States for about 20 years. He died on 20 March 1926, in Osborne, Osborne, Kansas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Osborne, Osborne, Kansas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Osborne, Kansas, United States
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.
English: variant of Bodkin . This form of the surname is now rare in Britain.
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