When Hazel Pearl Busby was born on 26 July 1900, in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Levi Busby, was 32 and her mother, Dora Etta Estey, was 25. She married Omar James Stemmons on 10 August 1929, in Claremore, Rogers, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Sheridan Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Lincoln Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1920. She died on 30 August 1978, at the age of 78, and was buried in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
After the Assassination of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the Twenty-sixth President of the United States. During his first term he didn't have a Vice President but for his second term Charles W. Fairbanks filled the position.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
English: habitational name from Busby in North Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Buschebi, from Old Norse buskr ‘bush, shrub’ or an Old Norse personal name Buski + bȳ ‘homestead, village’. Alternatively, a habitational name from Bushby in Leicestershire.
Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Busby in Carmunnock (Renfrewshire).
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