When Josephine Cortella Pierce was born on 29 September 1856, in Rock, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Thomas Lee Pierce, was 32 and her mother, Emily Monroe, was 30. She married Julius Caesar Warner on 10 September 1877, in Rock, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Johnstown, Rock, Wisconsin, United States in 1905 and Wasioja, Dodge, Minnesota, United States in 1910. She died on 3 April 1944, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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Minnesota is the 32nd state.
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, Welsh, and Irish: from the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Piers, Peres, Peris, an Old French nominative of Pierre or Per, the French form of Peter . Pierce is especially frequent in northwestern Wales and Lancashire, while Pearce is the more common spelling in the rest of England. In Ireland Pierce and Pearse represent a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais ‘son of Piaras’, a Gaelicized form of Piers.
Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.
History: Franklin Pierce (1804–69), 14th president of the US, was born in Hillsborough, NH, on the New England frontier. His English ancestor Thomas Pierce emigrated to Charlestown, MA, in 1633/34.
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