When Alice Virginia Dunford was born on 14 October 1866, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, her father, Charles Simeon Dunford, was 40 and her mother, Maria Cecelia Riely, was 29. She married William Ulysses Grant Rayl on 25 February 1888, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Columbus, Cherokee, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 27 March 1925, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Joplin Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States.
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This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Historical Boundaries: 1868: Cherokee, Kansas, United States
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
habitational name from Dunford Bridge, in Thurlstone (Yorkshire), so called from the river Don (a British name possibly meaning ‘river’) + Old English ford ‘ford’, or from Dunford House in Methley (Yorkshire), named in Old English as ‘Dunn's ford’ (see Dunn 2).
variant of Durnford, a habitational name from Durnford in Wiltshire, arising from Old English dierne + ford ‘hidden ford’. Alternatively, the name may perhaps arise from Dunford, alias Durnford, in Addlestone (Surrey).
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesI found this comment in the notes of Norma Rayl, granddaughter of Alice: Grandma Rayl often said, "I was born in St. Louis, married in St. Louis, and I want to die in St. Louis." She suffered a heart …
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