When Sarah Eugenia Anderson was born on 28 July 1861, in Tyler, Texas, United States, her father, George Washington Anderson, was 24 and her mother, Lucinda Caroline Durham, was 21. She married Jacob Richard Williamson Jr in 1879, in Bosque, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Hamilton, Hamilton, Texas, United States in 1910 and Justice Precinct 3, Comanche, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 11 September 1953, in Dublin, Erath, Texas, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Comanche, Comanche, Texas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
"On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: ""The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."""
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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