When Thomas Jefferson Board Jr. was born on 6 January 1863, in Roane, West Virginia, United States, his father, William Board, was 30 and his mother, Susan McCray Waybright, was 28. He married Emma Florilla Sleeth in 1882, in Roane, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Curtis District, Roane, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Spencer, Roane, West Virginia, United States in 1910. He died on 28 May 1936, in Roane, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Hildreth Cemetery, Marion, West Virginia, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: occupational name or nickname from Middle English bord(e) ‘board, plank, table’, denoting a carpenter or sawyer, a maker of boards and planks, or perhaps a nickname for a tall, thin person.
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