When Nelson Monroe Meals MD was born on 6 April 1848, in Washington Township, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Dr. Samuel David Meals, was 32 and his mother, Hannah Hull Emery, was 21. He married Rebecca Jennie Graham on 22 January 1872, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Licking Township, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 15 July 1928, in Callensburg, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Callensburg, Clarion, 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.
variant of Meale, with post-medieval excrescent -s. One origin of Meale is as a nickname from Middle English mele ‘meal, ground cereal’, perhaps for a maker or seller of meal. Compare Millman .
variant of Meale with plural -s. An alternative origin of Meale is as a topographic name from Middle English mele ‘sand-hill’ (Old Norse melr), as found in such placenames as North Meols, Ravensmeols (both Lancashire), and Great Meols (Cheshire).
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