When William Alexander Geary was born on 9 May 1845, in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, his father, Mathew Geary, was 53 and his mother, Elizabeth Elmira Mary Ashley, was 38. He married Mary Estaline Jarrett in 1866, in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Roane, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Geary District, Roane, West Virginia, United States in 1880. He died on 26 March 1929, in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Koontz Cemetery, Clendenin, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Hollywood Cemetery was established in 1847 in Richmond Virginia. This is where Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler are buried. During the Civil War it became the largest military interments and a large section dedicated to military burials. Jefferson Davis a well known Confederate is also buried here. Many other notable people are also buried here.
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 The Amendment was later repealed.
Irish (Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gadhra ‘descendant of Gadhra’ (see O'Gara ).
Irish: alternatively, possibly a shortened form of McGeary .
English: from the Old French personal name Geri, ancient Germanic Geric, from gēr ‘spear’ + rīc ‘power(ful)’.
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