When Mary Martha Spears was born on 25 October 1858, in Johnson, Kentucky, United States, her father, Thomas Whitt Spears, was 30 and her mother, Rebecca Jane Gaines, was 31. She had at least 1 daughter with J W Spears. She lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870. She died in 1901, in Floyd, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Floyd, Kentucky, United States.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
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 and Scottish: variant of Spear , with post-medieval excrescent -s. The name has sometimes been confused with Pearse .
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