When Martha Beltz Bitner was born on 12 April 1846, in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Frederick Beltz, was 37 and her mother, Sarah Knupp, was 25. She married Alexander Mathews Bitner in December 1869, in Ligonier, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Latrobe, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910 and Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. She died on 8 July 1934, in Ligonier, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Ligonier Valley Cemetery, Ligonier, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
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.
South German: metonymic occupational name for a furrier, from Middle High German bel(lī)z ‘fur, skin’ (from Late Latin pellicia).
In some cases also a Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Belec or its variant Belc.
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