When Florence Bonnie Jackson was born on 22 October 1900, in Wetumka, Hughes, Oklahoma, United States, her father, Franklin Felix Jackson, was 21 and her mother, Elizabeth Ophelia Greholver, was 18. She married Sam Lundie on 13 June 1916, in Beckham, Oklahoma, United States. She lived in Jones, Texas, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. She died on 14 July 1983, in San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Desert View Memorial Park, Victorville, San Bernardino, California, 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.
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from Jack . In North America, this surname has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages, in particular those derived from equivalents or short forms and other derivatives of the personal name Jacob , e.g. Norwegian Jacobsen or Jakobsen and, in some cases, Slovenian Jakše (from a derivative of the personal name Jakob ). This surname is also very common among African Americans (see also 2 below).
African American: from the personal name Jackson (or Andrew Jackson), adopted in honor of Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the US; or adoption of the surname in 1 above, in many cases probably for the same reason.
History: This extremely common British name was brought over by numerous different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One forebear was the father and namesake of the seventh US president, Andrew Jackson, who migrated to SC from Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland in 1765. The Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson came from VA, where his great-grandfather John, likewise of Scotch–Irish stock, had settled after emigrating to America in 1748.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesI remember going to California and visiting Aunt Florence and Uncle John. in Victorville They had the nicest house. it had a movie room where Uncle John would run Disney cartoons for us. It was …
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