When Maston Meredith was born in November 1855, in Camden, Missouri, United States, his father, Mathias Meredith, was 35 and his mother, Surrilda Wiseman, was 31. He lived in Jackson Township, Camden, Missouri, United States in 1860. He died on 16 August 1869, in Camden, Missouri, United States, at the age of 13, and was buried in Camden, Missouri, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Welsh: from the personal name Meredydd (Old Welsh Morgetiud, Middle Welsh Maredudd, from a possible British Celtic ethnic name of the type Morgetes + iǖth ‘lord’). Compare Beddow .
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