When Edith May Constable was born on 6 January 1877, in Goodland, Grant Township, Newton, Indiana, United States, her father, Clement Lempriere Constable, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Mitten, was 21. She married Francis Elbert Pierce on 29 October 1902, in Newton, Jefferson Township, Newton, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Wea Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States in 1930 and Green Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died in 1953, at the age of 76, and was buried in Goodland, Grant Township, Newton, Indiana, United States.
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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.
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.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English (southeastern): occupational name for the law-enforcement officer of a parish, from Middle English, Old French conestable, cunestable, from Late Latin comes stabuli ‘officer of the stable’. The title was also borne by various other officials during the Middle Ages, including the chief officer of a household or court, or a military officer, and this may in some cases be the source of the surname.
Americanized form of Dutch Constapel, an occupational name for the chief gunner aboard a ship or in the garrison of a fort.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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