When Martha J Self was born on 15 March 1856, in Alabama, United States, her father, Rev Majors Moses Self, was 35 and her mother, Nancy Jane Johnson, was 34. She married Joseph William Fair on 11 July 1875, in Jefferson, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Ouachita Township, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States in 1910 and Polk Township, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1935, in Montgomery, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Oden, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States.
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Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
By the time the Battle of Pea Ridge happened the Union forces had pushed Confederates through Missouri and Arkansas. This battle was important in securing Missouri for the Union and opening Arkansas for the Union.
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 (Norfolk and Suffolk): from the Middle English personal name Sa(h)ulf (Old English Sǣwulf, from sǣ ‘sea’ + wulf ‘wolf’).
North German: nickname from Low German self ‘self’ for a self-important person.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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