When Rachel Laverna Waller was born on 15 April 1855, in Flemington, Taylor, West Virginia, United States, her father, Charles L. Waller, was 25 and her mother, Julia Ann Davis, was 22. She married George Whittier Adams on 20 August 1876, in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in McElroy District, Tyler, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Ten Mile District, Harrison, West Virginia, United States in 1910. She died on 1 September 1936, in Harrisville, Ritchie, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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: occupational name from Middle English waler, waliere, walour, waller ‘builder of walls, mason’.
English: in Sussex, perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent wall.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a spring, stream, or man-made well, from Middle English waller, a derivative of Middle English walle, Old English wælle, wælle. It is a West Midlands dialect form of Weller .
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