When Sarah Elizabeth Gants was born on 15 April 1841, in Cass, Indiana, United States, her father, Andrew W. Gants, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Fallis, was 19. She married Joseph Berkshire on 7 June 1864, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States. She lived in Harrison Township, Pulaski, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Logansport, Cass, Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 4 November 1915, in Chetopa, Labette, Kansas, United States, at the age of 74.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Probably an Americanized form of German Götz (see Goetz ).
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