When Artemissa Craft was born on 29 August 1847, in Mississippi, United States, her father, William Whitmell Craft, was 31 and her mother, Leah Smith, was 22. She married Meredia Foshee on 29 December 1869, in Sabine, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Justice Precinct 4, Jasper, Texas, United States in 1880 and Ward Three, Vernon, Louisiana, United States in 1900. She died on 30 August 1902, in Vernon, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Rosepine, Vernon, Louisiana, United States.
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The United States Congress passed a package of five separate bills in an attempt to decrease tensions between the slave states and free states. The compromise itself was received gratefully, but both sides disapproved of certain components contained in the laws. Texas was impacted in several ways; mainly, the state surrendered its claim to New Mexico (and other claims north of 36°30′) but retained the Texas Panhandle. The federal government also took over the public debt for Texas.
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: nickname from Middle English craft ‘skillful, clever, learned’.
English: habitational name from Croft in Leicestershire. See also Croft .
Americanized form of German, Danish, Swedish, or Jewish Kraft . See also Croft .
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