When Ella May Wicoff was born on 17 May 1857, in Rocky Ford, Otero, Colorado, United States, her father, Allen Wyckoff, was 35 and her mother, Mary Phillips, was 35. She married Charles Walter Williams on 23 April 1884, in Scioto, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Nile Township, Scioto, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Fowler, Otero, Colorado, United States in 1900. She died on 13 March 1934, at the age of 76, and was buried in Manzanola, Otero, Colorado, United States.
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Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
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.
Variant of Wyckoff , a surname of East Frisian origin.
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