When Sidney Farris Callis was born on 28 October 1863, in Obion, Tennessee, United States, his father, Henry Callis, was 45 and his mother, Sabra Russell, was 33. He married Laura Cora Hauser on 15 November 1888, in Obion, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Civil District 3, Weakley, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. He died on 22 February 1929, in Martin, Weakley, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Gardner Cemetery, Martin, Weakley, Tennessee, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
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 and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from the French port of Calais.
Greek: variant of Kallis .
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