When Nellie Beatrice Ford was born on 27 July 1900, in Hillview, Greene, Illinois, United States, her father, William Curtis Ford, was 22 and her mother, Lora Adelia Schutz, was 20. She married Charles Granville Dawdy on 19 December 1916, in Township of Carrollton, Greene, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Patterson, Greene, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Township of Walkerville, Greene, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died on 27 February 1984, in Godfrey, Madison, Illinois, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Pinetree Cemetery, Patterson, Greene, Illinois, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1903: Greene, Illinois, United States
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a ford (Middle English, Old English ford), or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word, such as Ford (Durham, Herefordshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex), Ford in Sefton (Lancashire), Ford in Crediton and Ford in Holcombe Rogus (both Devon), Ford in Litton and Ford in Wiveliscombe (both Somerset).
Irish: Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example MacGiolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran ).
Americanized form of French Faure ‘blacksmith’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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