When Amanda Catherine Ingram was born on 26 February 1864, in Greene, Arkansas, United States, her father, Solomon Crosby Ingram, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Caroline Payne, was 34. She married James Michael Hall on 23 July 1879, in Johnson, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Johnson, Texas, United States in 1880. She died on 28 February 1888, in Leesburg, Camp, Texas, United States, at the age of 24.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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."
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
English (of Norman origin): from the Anglo-Norman personal name Ingeram (Old French Enguerran, Engerran; ancient Germanic Engelramnus, Ingelramnus, Engelrammus, Ingelrammus), from the heroic name-element seen in such names as Ingle + hrafn- ‘raven’.
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