Laura Hanna Plaster
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Parents
Michael Plaster
Michael Plaster
1813 - 1892
Ruth Burress
Ruth Burress
1819 - 1878
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1856


Feb 28

1870


Age: 13y
1870 • Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.

1875


Jun 27
Age: 19y
1875 6 – German emigrant ship SS Deutschland runs aground in the English Channel resulting in the death of 157 passengers and crew.This inspires Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem The Wreck of the Deutschland, not published until 1918.

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