When Augusta Randolph was born on 4 May 1880, in Cumberland, Tennessee, United States, her father, Jasper Randolph, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bumbalough, was 36. She married Gooden Jesse Sherrill in 1900, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Civil District 3, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States for about 30 years and Crossville, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States for about 1 years. She died on 8 June 1952, in Cumberland, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Big Lick, Cumberland, Tennessee, 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.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English and German: from Randolf, an ancient Germanic personal name composed of the elements rand ‘rim (of a shield), shield’ + wolf ‘wolf’. This was introduced into England by the Normans in Old French forms of two different ancient Germanic personal names which became confused with each other: Randulf (from rand ‘(shield-)edge’ + wulf ‘wolf’) and Rannulf (from hraf(a)n ‘raven’ + wulf ‘wolf’).
History: An American family bearing this surname are descended from William Randolph (c. 1651–1711), a planter and merchant, a member of a family that originally came from Sussex, England. William Randolph emigrated from Warwickshire to VA c. 1673. He was a forebear of Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee. Randolph had seven sons, each of whom inherited an estate, the name of which was sometimes added to their own, such as Sir John Randolph of Tazewell. His great-grandsons included Edmund Randolph (1753–1813), first attorney general of the US and one of the framers of the US Constitution, and the diplomat and statesman John Randolph of Roanoke (1773–1833), who served as US minister to Russia.
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