Brief Life History of Dollie
When Dollie Varney was born on 9 June 1876, in Pike, Kentucky, United States, her father, Levi Melvin Varney, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Ann Collins, was 20. She married Ireland Smith on 6 May 1899, in Mingo, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 6, Pike, Kentucky, United States in 1940 and Pikeville, Pike, Kentucky, United States for about 1 years. She died on 12 April 1957, in Huddy, Pike, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Belfry, Pike, Kentucky, United States.
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- Dollie Smith, "United States Census, 1900"
- Dollie Varney, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Dolly Smith, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1891
Historical Boundaries: 1891: Pike, Kentucky, United States
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English: of Norman origin, a habitational name from a French place called Vernay, probably chiefly Saint-Paul-de-Vernay (Calvados). The placename comes from a derivative of Gaulish verno- ‘alder’ + the locative suffix -acum.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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