When Mary Frances Burns was born in March 1849, in Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, United States, her father, Benjamin F Burns, was 39 and her mother, Ruth Gorrell, was 38. She married George William Zepp about 1866, in West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Martinsburg, Berkeley, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Arden, Berkeley, West Virginia, United States in 1880.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Martinsburg, the county seat of Berkeley County, was laid out in 1773 by Gen. Adam Stephen. Martinsburg was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly that was adopted in December 1778 during the American Revolutionary War. The vote to create a new state in western Virginia was very low, but statehood was approved by Congress and President Lincoln, and the new state was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863. The city of Martinsburg was incorporated by an act of the new West Virginia Legislature on March 30, 1868.
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.
Scottish (central Scotland and northern England): habitational name from any of various places called formerly Burnis, Burnes, or Burnhouse (named with burn- ‘stream’), especially those in Kincardineshire, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire, and possibly Argyll.
English and Scottish: variant either of Burn , with post-medieval excrescent -s, or of Barnes .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin (see Byrne ), with excrescent -s.
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