When Sylvia Ann Marsh was born on 31 October 1879, in Menard, Illinois, United States, her father, Charles Walter Marsh, was 26 and her mother, Susan Nancy Davis, was 20. She married Willis Ransom McCracken on 1 July 1897, in Success, Clay, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Tywappity Township, Mississippi, Missouri, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. She died on 15 February 1960, in Charleston, Mississippi, Missouri, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in IOOF Cemetery, Charleston, Mississippi, Missouri, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries - 1895: Clay, Arkansas, United States
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.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by or in a marsh or fen, Middle English mersch (Old English mersc), or a habitational name from any of various minor places called with this word, for example in Yorkshire, Shropshire and Buckinghamshire.
Americanized form of German Marsch .
Americanized form of Slovenian Marš: unexplained. Compare Mars 7.
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