When Harriet Josephine Colbart was born on 14 January 1860, in Russell, Mobile, Alabama, United States, her father, Elisha Colbert, was 41 and her mother, Harriet Martha Dismuke, was 36. She married William Augustus "Gus" Phillips on 1 June 1879, in Barbour, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 5, Navarro, Texas, United States in 1910. She died on 7 January 1937, in Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Blooming Grove, Navarro, Texas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries 1865: Navarro, Texas, United States
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
French, English, and Irish (Cork and Waterford): from the Norman personal name Colbert, of ancient Germanic origin, from kol- ‘coal’ + berht ‘bright’.
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