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Emily F. Marshall
5/2/1847 - 1930
(Shown at age 43)

Emily F. Marshall was born on May 2, 1847 in Decatur Co., Georgia and died about 1930 somewhere in Florida. Actual date of death is unknown. She lived to be about 82 years old.

She moved to Calhoun Co. in 1883, before that she lived in Bainbridge and Faceville, GA. She was the 2nd wife of Thomas Ayers. They were married Mar 31,1889 at Magnolia Church in Calhoun Co. FL Emily and Thomas had no children but she was well thought of because she took such good care of his children by his first wife.

	Military	1/1/1907	FL (Calhoun County)	59 yrs old
	A00759 - Thomas Ayers, 5th Regt Inf, Emily (Marshall),year: 1907,pages 8

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Age	Date	Event
3	1850	Florida's total population has grown to 87,445. This includes about 39,000 slaves and 1,000 free blacks. Indians were not counted.
8	1855	Third Seminole Indian War begins and war breaks out with most of the battles occurring in Central Florida. It ends three years later when Chief Billy Bowlegs and his band are forced to move from Florida.
14	1861	No Floridian's voted for Lincoln during the 1860 election. On Jan. 10, 1861, Florida seceded from the U.S. and joined the Confederate States of America a few weeks later.
17	1864	Battle of Olustee is a Confederate victory. Union troops pull back
18	1865	Battle at Natural Bridge (Wakulla County) is a Confederate victory.
18	1865	May 10th -- Union troops occupy Tallahassee. While Tallahassee was the only Confederate state capital east of the Mississippi River that had not been captured, Union troops occupy the capitol following the surrender of the major Confederate armies in the east.
23	1870	During the 1870s, the remaining Seminole Indians begin establishing trading posts and other economy with local settlers.
35	1882	The Florida Central and Western Railroad Company was created. It combines the Florida Central, Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mobile railroads.
36	1883	Three railroad companies are merged to form the Florida Transit and Penisular Railroad Company. Thee are: Florida Transit Railroad Co., Peninsular Railroad Co, and the Tropical Florida Railroad Co.
37	1884	Most railroads in Florida are passed into the hands of a single company owned and operated by a single management, under the name of The Florida Railway and Navigation Company. It has more that 500 miles of main track in operation and about 300 miles of track under construction. The longest route was the "Western Division" which ran from Tallahassee to Jacksonville - 209 miles.
59	1906	An attempt to drain the Everglades and convert it to farmland begins.
70	1917	Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction.
81	1928	The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy.

Age	Date	Event
3	1850	Gordon and Clinch Counties are formed.
4	1851	Clay, Howell, Polk, Spalding, and Whitfield Counties are formed.
5	1852	Taylor County formed.
6	1853	Catoosa, Pickens, Hart, Dougherty, Webster, Flton, and Worth Counties aare creaated.
7	1854	Fannin, Coffee, Chattahooche, Charlton, and Calhoun Counties formed.
9	1856	Haralson, Terrell, Berrien, Colquit, Miller, and Towns Counties formed.
10	1857	Dawson, Milton, Pierce, Glascock, Mitchell, Schley, White, and Wilcox Counties formed.
11	1858	Clayton, Quitman, Banks, Brooks, Johnson, and Echols Counties formed.
23	1870	Douglas, McDuffie, Rockdale, and Dodge Counties formed.
28	1875	Oconee County formed.
58	1905	Crisp, Grady, Jenkins, Tift, Davis, Stephens, Toombs, Turner, and Ben Hill Counties formed.
65	1912	Forsyth, Bleckley, and Wheeler Counties formed.
67	1914	Barrow, Candler, Bacon, and Evans Counties are formed.
70	1917	Atkinson and Treutlen Counties are formed.
73	1920	Seminole, Lanier, Brantley, Long, and Lamar Counties are formed.
77	1924	Peach County is formed.

Age	Date	Event
6	1853	The process of creating steel is invented by Besermer in Britain and Kelly in the U.S.
9	1856	The first Neanderthal fossils are found near Germany
12	1859	Charles Darwin publishes "Origin of Species" and begins the evolution theory.
18	1865	Mendel publishes his papers on genetics and introduces the concept to the public.
22	1869	Cro-magnon Man fossils are found in France
30	1877	Edison invents the phonograph permitting music and voices to be recorded and replayed.
32	1879	Edison invents the electric light bulb.
42	1889	The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards
48	1895	Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance.
50	1897	First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph
53	1900	Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams"
53	1900	The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control.
54	1901	First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent.
55	1902	The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered.
56	1903	Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk
57	1904	The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming
59	1906	The triode vacuum tube is invented
59	1906	Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes
59	1906	Electrons are discovered by Thomson
65	1912	The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people.
66	1913	Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant
67	1914	The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed
76	1923	Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
76	1923	Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
77	1924	Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
79	1926	Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
80	1927	The first television transmission was announced in England
81	1928	Big bang theory was introduced

Age	Date	Event
14	1861	NEWS HEADLINES: American Civil war begins at Ft. Sumter, located in Charleston Harbor, VA.
15	1862	NEWS HEADLINES: May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West.
35	1882	NEWS HEADLINES: Edison creates the first large power station in New York City, making it the first place in America to have electricity.
38	1885	NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen.
61	1908	NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile
65	1912	White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out.
66	1913	NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures
70	1917	NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.
72	1919	NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.

Age	Date	Event
8	1855	Third Seminole Indian War begins. It ends three years later when Chief Billy Bowlegs and his band are forced to move from Florida.
13	1860	Presidential election puts Abraham Lincoln in office. The campaign has heated the issues regarding slavery in the south.
15	1862	May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West.
16	1863	Abraham Lincoln issues the "Emancipation Proclamation" freeing slaves.
18	1865	American Civil war ends with General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA. Reconstruction begins in the "old South"
21	1868	An eight-hour work day is established for federal employees.
28	1875	Tennessee enacts Jim Crow law.
29	1876	The National League of Baseball is founded
62	1909	The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
63	1910	Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area.
80	1927	Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
82	1929	Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
83	1930	Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.

Age	Date	Event
62	1909	The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe
67	1914	World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days.
70	1917	Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
72	1919	The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
73	1920	Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.

Emily Ayers

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Thomas Ayers
Born on January 18, 1841 and died on December 13, 1896.
They were married 3/31/1889.

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