When Anna Elizabeth Ghent was born on 27 July 1858, in Clinton, Indiana, United States, her father, Ira Keith Ghent, was 27 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Palmer, was 27. She married George Pearson Hedgecock on 16 May 1882, in Clinton, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 15 South Rifle, Garfield, Colorado, United States in 1910 and Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, United States in 1930. She died on 13 June 1945, in Glenwood Springs, Garfield, Colorado, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Rifle, Garfield, Colorado, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
EARLIEST KNOWN MEMORIAL: Mary Elizabeth Palmer Ghent BIRTH 25 Nov 1830 Indiana, USA DEATH 9 Jun 1880 (aged 49) USA BURIAL Rose Hill Cemetery Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado, USA MEMORIAL ID 145588164
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 Ghent (Gent in Dutch), a city in Flanders, Belgium. Compare Gent .
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