When Eliza Isabella Slyoff was born on 19 March 1860, in Elk, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Daniel Lowe, was 36 and her mother, Isabelle McNeil, was 24. She married Reuben Monroe Jaqua on 13 December 1882, in Calhoun, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Cheyenne, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Wano, Cheyenne, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 31 December 1938, in Saint Francis, Cheyenne, Kansas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Saint Francis, Cheyenne, Kansas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1873: Cheyenne, Kansas, United States
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Short form of Elizabeth , first used in the 16th century, and popular in the 18th and 19th centuries as an independent given name. It was used by George Bernard Shaw for the main female character, Eliza Dolittle , in his play Pygmalion ( 1913 ), which was the basis for the musical and film My Fair Lady.
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