When Ida May Hatch was born on 7 August 1859, in Morrill, Waldo, Maine, United States, her father, Barak Hatch, was 39 and her mother, Lois Louisa Jane Cross, was 34. She married John Francis Cross on 16 December 1876, in Belfast, Waldo, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 9 March 1937, in Morrill, Waldo, Maine, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Morrill Village Cemetery, Morrill, Waldo, Maine, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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.
English: habitational name from Hatch (Bedfordshire, Devon, Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire), Hacche in South Molton (Devon), or else a topographic name from residence near a hatch, a gate leading to a forest or sometimes a sluice-gate, from Middle English hacche ‘gate’ (Old English hæcce, Kentish Old English hec(c)). This name has been in Ireland since the 17th century, associated with County Meath and the nearby part of Louth.
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