Brief Life History of Ida Dell
When Ida Dell Sills was born on 14 November 1878, in Lagro Township, Wabash, Indiana, United States, her father, William Sills, was 42 and her mother, Sarah Grimes, was 27. She married Samuel Edward Harrell on 8 August 1900. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Wabash, Noble Township, Wabash, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 6 May 1924, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Leedy Cemetery, Deedsville, Miami, Indiana, United States.
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- Ida Spray in household of Pearl Spray, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ida Dell Sills - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Ida Dell Sills
- Ida Harrell, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Sill , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
German: patronymic from Sill .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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