When Alice Celesney Carroway was born on 3 March 1859, in Iowa, United States, her father, James M Caraway, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Martz, was 31. She married Ephrahim Light about 1881, in Calistoga, Napa, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Calistoga Judicial Township, Napa, California, United States in 1910 and Calistoga, Napa, California, United States for about 10 years. She died on 25 October 1940, in Napa, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in St. Helena, Napa, California, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.
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.
English (Kent): variant of Carraway .
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