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Mary Ann Walker 

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Redmond Green Walker
8/18/1818 - 4/2/1901

 


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Mary Ann Walker
5/10/1840 - 2/1880
Mary Ann Walker was born on May 10, 1840 somewhere in Georgia and died on an unknown day in February 1880 somewhere in Georgia. Dates for birth and death are estimated. She lived to be about 39 years old.

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7 1847 Atlanta, Georgia is incorporated. Formally Marthasville
10 1850 Gordon and Clinch Counties are formed.
11 1851 Clay, Howell, Polk, Spalding, and Whitfield Counties are formed.
12 1852 Taylor County formed.
13 1853 Catoosa, Pickens, Hart, Dougherty, Webster, Flton, and Worth Counties aare creaated.
14 1854 Fannin, Coffee, Chattahooche, Charlton, and Calhoun Counties formed.
16 1856 Haralson, Terrell, Berrien, Colquit, Miller, and Towns Counties formed.
17 1857 Dawson, Milton, Pierce, Glascock, Mitchell, Schley, White, and Wilcox Counties formed.
18 1858 Clayton, Quitman, Banks, Brooks, Johnson, and Echols Counties formed.
30 1870 Douglas, McDuffie, Rockdale, and Dodge Counties formed.
35 1875 Oconee County formed.
AgeDateEvent
4 1844 The first telegraph message is sent by Morse, who later invents the Mores Code
13 1853 The process of creating steel is invented by Besermer in Britain and Kelly in the U.S.
16 1856 The first Neanderthal fossils are found near Germany
19 1859 Charles Darwin publishes "Origin of Species" and begins the evolution theory.
25 1865 Mendel publishes his papers on genetics and introduces the concept to the public.
29 1869 Cro-magnon Man fossils are found in France
37 1877 Edison invents the phonograph permitting music and voices to be recorded and replayed.
39 1879 Edison invents the electric light bulb.
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21 1861 NEWS HEADLINES: American Civil war begins at Ft. Sumter, located in Charleston Harbor, VA.
22 1862 NEWS HEADLINES: May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West.
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2 1842 Second Seminole Indian War ends and thousands of Seminole Indians are forced to move west of the Mississippi.
15 1855 Third Seminole Indian War begins. It ends three years later when Chief Billy Bowlegs and his band are forced to move from Florida.
20 1860 Presidential election puts Abraham Lincoln in office. The campaign has heated the issues regarding slavery in the south.
22 1862 May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West.
23 1863 Abraham Lincoln issues the "Emancipation Proclamation" freeing slaves.
25 1865 American Civil war ends with General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA. Reconstruction begins in the "old South"
28 1868 An eight-hour work day is established for federal employees.
35 1875 Tennessee enacts Jim Crow law.
36 1876 The National League of Baseball is founded


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John Cook
Born about 1837 and died about 1937
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The Children of Mary Ann Walker

17 years old
Willis Summerfield Cook
Born in Fayetteville, Georgia on May 10, 1858 and died in Campbell, Georgia on December 9, 1943. He was about 85 years old.

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