When Thomas Bruce Bumgardner was born on 19 October 1858, in Clinton, Clinton Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States, his father, Isaac Thomas Bumgardner, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Pinson, was 21. He married Alma Augusta Holmes on 24 October 1886, in Sullivan, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Clinton Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Adams Township, Warren, Indiana, United States in 1930. He died on 10 August 1939, in Vermillion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Hall Cemetery, Universal, Clinton Township, Vermillion, 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.
Altered form of German Baumgartner .
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