When Ruth Jane Daily was born on 9 March 1852, in Lodi Township, Athens, Ohio, United States, her father, David Madison Dailey, was 34 and her mother, Rachel Ann Winget, was 29. She married George W. Lightfoot on 12 February 1867, in Athens, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Salisbury Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Bedford Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States for about 30 years. She died on 20 October 1936, in Meigs, Ohio, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Bedford Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States.
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Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Irish: variant of Daly . In Ireland and Britain this form of the surname is found mainly in Scotland.
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