When Nancy Riffle was born in February 1848, in Battelle District, Monongalia, Virginia, United States, her father, Jefferson Conrad Riffle, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Heater, was 25. She married Cyrus Edgar Mitchell in 1874, in Lewis, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Kanawha District, Braxton, West Virginia, United States in 1880 and Saltlick, Braxton, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 28 September 1925, in Upshur, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Kanawha Head, Upshur, West Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
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 Riffel or of Swiss German Rüfle, Ruefli, Rüfli, or Rüeffli, all from pet forms of Rudolf .
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