When Nancy J. Matlock was born about 1850, in Texas, United States, her father, Lewis James Matlock, was 27 and her mother, Amanda Jane "Mandy" Bell, was 27. She married Gustavus McMinn on 12 November 1866, in Rusk, Texas, United States. She lived in Mount Enterprise, Rusk, Texas, United States in 1910 and Rusk, Texas, United States in 1920. She died on 7 August 1928, at the age of 79, and was buried in Mount Enterprise, Rusk, Texas, United States.
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The United States Congress passed a package of five separate bills in an attempt to decrease tensions between the slave states and free states. The compromise itself was received gratefully, but both sides disapproved of certain components contained in the laws. Texas was impacted in several ways; mainly, the state surrendered its claim to New Mexico (and other claims north of 36°30′) but retained the Texas Panhandle. The federal government also took over the public debt for Texas.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
English: habitational name from Matlock in Derbyshire. The placename probably derives from Old English mæthel ‘speech, assembly, meeting place’ + āc ‘oak tree’.
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