When Marie Helene Ortego was born on 11 December 1861, in Ville Platte, Evangeline, Louisiana, United States, her father, Edmond Joseph Ortego, was 31 and her mother, Zoe Ortego, was 26. She married Ozema Marcantel on 3 December 1878, in Eunice, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Ward Six, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States in 1900. She died on 3 August 1930, in Oberlin, Allen, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Reed Cemetery, Oberlin, Allen, Louisiana, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Louisiana was readmitted into the Union.
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.
Spanish: probably a nickname from the masculine form of Ortega 2.
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