When Richard West Thackeray was born in 1863, in Canada, his father, Francis Thackeray, was 43 and his mother, Mary A Moore, was 31. He married Lillian Herter on 16 January 1901, in Grinnell, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States. He lived in Grinnell, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States for about 50 years. He died on 6 October 1931, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Grinnell, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Thackray in the parish of Great Timble, Yorkshire, now submerged in Fewston reservoir. It was named with Old Norse thak ‘thatching, reeds’ + (v)rá ‘nook, corner’.
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