When Rachel Fetters was born on 17 February 1853, in Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John A. Fetters, was 41 and her mother, Catharine Silers Dibert, was 22. She had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Andrew Curtin Heffner. She lived in West Providence Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 50 years. She died on 7 January 1912, in Earlston, West Providence Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Everett Cemetery, Everett, Bedford, 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.
English: nickname for a cheat, from Middle English, Anglo-French faitour ‘imposter, cheat’, a specialized sense of Old French faitor ‘doer, maker’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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