When Winifred Louisa Engle was born on 2 April 1849, in Astoria, Fulton, Illinois, United States, her father, Michael J. Engle, was 23 and her mother, Rebecca Downen, was 19. She married John Ritchie on 5 October 1869, in Rushville, Schuyler, Illinois, United States. She lived in Browning, Schuyler, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Oakland Township, Schuyler, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 29 November 1927, in Astoria, Fulton, Illinois, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Salem Cemetery, Astoria, Fulton, Illinois, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Schuyler, Illinois, United States
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.
Americanized form of German Engel .
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