When Martha Ellender Wilson was born on 19 August 1862, in Randolph, Indiana, United States, her father, William Madison Wilson, was 22 and her mother, Mary Amanda Thompson, was 17. She married Andrew Jackson Wilkinson on 17 August 1885, in Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 2, Navarro, Texas, United States in 1910 and Justice Precinct 1, Hamilton, Texas, United States in 1930. She died on 21 August 1962, in Hamilton, Texas, United States, at the age of 100, and was buried in Gentrys Mill Cemetery, Hamilton, Hamilton, Texas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
English: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
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