When John William Gedney II was born on 5 June 1880, in Windsor, Henry, Missouri, United States, his father, John William Gedney Sr, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Allen, was 32. He married Jesse May Melvin on 4 September 1900, in Windsor, Henry, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 9 Bayfield, La Plata, Colorado, United States in 1940 and La Plata, La Plata, Colorado, United States in 1950. He died on 7 January 1954, in Durango, La Plata, Colorado, United States, at the age of 73.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1882: La Plata, Colorado, United States
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English (Lincolnshire): habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire, probably so named from an Old English personal name Gǣda or Gydda (genitive -n) + ēg ‘island’.
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