When Caldonia Clemintine Lankford was born on 13 January 1863, in Texas, United States, her father, Collins N Lankford, was 33 and her mother, Mary Adeline Ash, was 33. She married James J Hampton on 22 October 1884, in Quitman, Wood, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 6, Denton, Texas, United States in 1900 and Elida, Roosevelt, New Mexico, United States in 1910. She died on 1 April 1944, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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."
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: apparently a variant of Langford .
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