When Ida May Jones was born on 19 May 1858, in Wyoming, Stark, Illinois, United States, her father, Amos Paul Jones, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Jane Brandt, was 24. She had at least 3 sons and 4 daughters with Charles Francis Wakeman. She lived in Keya Paha, Nebraska, United States in 1920 and Gregory, Gregory, South Dakota, United States for about 10 years. She died on 16 April 1946, in Gregory, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 87.
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Historical Boundaries: 1862: Gregory, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Gregory, South Dakota, United States
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.
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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