When James Surl Seals was born on 20 December 1862, in Dunlap, Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States, his father, James William Seals, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Whitlow, was 26. He married Tibatha Narcissus Clemons on 31 May 1883, in Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. He lived in Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States in 1935 and Civil District 2, Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 15 May 1953, in Dunlap, Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Dunlap, Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: variant of Seal with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Sales , with which the name was probably interchangeable.
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