Jerusha L Fox was born on 4 March 1852, in Eaton, Michigan, United States. She married Rollo Alonzo Sanders on 4 July 1882, in Nashville, Castleton Township, Barry, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Vermontville, Vermontville Township, Eaton, Michigan, United States in 1900 and Kalamo, Kalamo Township, Eaton, Michigan, United States in 1910. She died on 14 September 1917, at the age of 65, and was buried in Kalamo Township, Eaton, Michigan, United States.
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A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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: nickname from a word denoting the animal (Middle English, Old English fox), widely used to denote a sly or cunning individual. It was also used for someone with red hair. In England this surname absorbed some early examples of surnames derived from the ancient Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks .
Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney ).
Irish: also adopted for Ó Catharnaigh, see Kearney .
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