When Willie Frances Hooker was born on 13 February 1867, in Pierce City, Lawrence, Missouri, United States, her father, Lorenzo Dow Hooker, was 32 and her mother, Alee Roxilda Jamison, was 28. She married William Pleasant Wight on 28 September 1889. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Mount Pleasant Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Pierce Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 16 August 1905, at the age of 38, and was buried in Pierce City Cemetery, Pierce City, Lawrence, Missouri, United States.
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Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
As one of the Reconstruction Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment addresses the rights and protections that all citizens of the United States have. The amendment also limits actions of state and local officials in all states.
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 (southeastern):
occupational name for a hook maker, from Middle English, Old English hōcere, possibly also used for an agricultural laborer who used hooks. In some cases the name may have become Hocker .
topographic name for a ‘dweller by a hill spur or bend’, from Middle English hoke ‘hook, river bend, hill spur’ + -er (see Hook 1).
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