When Mary M. "Polly" Barbee was born in January 1832, in Crawford, Illinois, United States, her father, William Barbee, was 35 and her mother, Sarah Sally Young, was 32. She married George Madison McClure on 27 September 1855, in Palestine, Crawford, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Crawford, Rice, Kansas, United States in 1895 and Pittsburg, Crawford, Kansas, United States in 1900. She died on 14 July 1919, in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Mount Olive Cemetery, Pittsburg, Crawford, Kansas, United States.
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"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: variant of Barby .
English (of French Huguenot origin): Anglicized form of French Barbé (see Barbe ).
Americanized form of French Barbier and possibly also of Barbé (compare 2 above).
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