When Lewis Thomas Coston was born on 25 December 1878, in Onslow, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Russell Coston, was 41 and his mother, Casandria M Pierce, was 36. He married Sina Katherine Sanders on 17 May 1899. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Stump Sound Township, Onslow, North Carolina, United States for about 60 years. He died on 19 May 1954, in Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Holly Ridge, Onslow, North Carolina, 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.
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
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.
English: habitational name mostly from Coston (Norfolk), though there are similarly named places in Shropshire and Leicestershire.
English: variant of Costin .
French: from a diminutive of Old French coste ‘slope’ or ‘river bank, coast’ (see Cote ).
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