When Martha Adaline Blackburn was born on 11 October 1847, in Hopewell, Wayne, North Carolina, United States, her father, Edmund Blackburn, was 22 and her mother, Cynthia Frances Hodges, was 19. She married William Harvey Blackburn in 1867, in Oregon, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Stony Fork Township, Watauga, North Carolina, United States in 1900 and Stony Fork, Watauga, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years. She died on 1 December 1933, in Laxon, Watauga, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Laurel Springs Cemetery, Deep Gap, Watauga, North Carolina, United States.
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The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Blackburn, but especially the one in Lancashire, so named with Old English blæc ‘dark’ + burna ‘stream’. This surname is found mainly in northern England.
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