When Priscilla Jane Branson was born on 2 March 1856, in Greene, Illinois, United States, her father, Nathan T Branson, was 25 and her mother, Margaret Odell, was 34. She married George Frank Thompson on 12 February 1874, in Brown, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Millard, Douglas, Nebraska, United States in 1880 and Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States in 1900. She died on 5 June 1918, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Washington, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Douglas, Nebraska, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: habitational name from any of several places: Branston in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Staffordshire, Brandeston in Suffolk, Brandiston in Norfolk, or Braunston in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. All are named with the Old English personal name Brant + tūn ‘settlement’.
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