When Martha Agnes Pond was born on 16 May 1862, in Surry, Virginia, United States, her father, John Hawkins Pond, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Eleanor "Bettie" Vick, was 25. She married Leroy John Bain on 12 June 1890, in Wakefield, Sussex, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Boykins, Southampton, Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 31 August 1948, in Capron, Southampton, Virginia, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Capron, Southampton, Virginia, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English (mainly southern): topographic name for someone who lived by a pond or lake, from Middle English ponde ‘pond, artificial or natural pool’, denoting someone who lived or worked by such a feature.
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