When George Dilling Roe was born on 12 April 1862, in Urbana, Champaign, Illinois, United States, his father, John Busey Roe, was 25 and his mother, Susannah Dilling, was 19. He married Mariah Forest Swain on 26 November 1885, in Fredonia, Wilson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Center Township, Wilson, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 20 April 1889, in Fredonia, Wilson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Fredonia, Wilson, Kansas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1868: Wilson, Kansas, United States
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: nickname from Middle English ro(o) ‘roe deer’ (Old English rā). This is the midland and southern form, also found in South Yorkshire and Lancashire. In much of northern England, however, rā remained unrounded and survives as Ray 3.
English: post-medieval variant of Wroe (see Wray ). Wroe may also have been used as a spelling of Roe .
English: post-medieval variant of Row (or vice versa); see Rowe .
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