Brief Life History of Katie C.
When Katie C. Rea was born on 12 August 1876, in Indiana, United States, her father, William Steel Rea, was 37 and her mother, Geraldine A. Knecht, was 22. She lived in Terre Haute, Sullivan, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died on 23 May 1888, in Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, United States, at the age of 11, and was buried in Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, United States.
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- Kattie C Rea in household of William S Rea, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Kattie C. Rea - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Kattie C. Rea
- Katie Rea, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter ye ‘at the island’ (Old English ēg, īeg). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on an island or patch of firm ground surrounded by marsh, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Rye (Sussex), The Rye in High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire), Rye Hill in Epping Upland (Essex), Rye Mill in Feering (Essex), and Rye House in Stanstead Abbots (Hertfordshire). Alternatively, the name may also arise from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter eye ‘at the river’ (Old English ēa) and may also be topographic, for someone who lived near a river or stream, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Rea in Hempsted (Gloucestershire), Ray Lodge in Lingfield (Surrey), and Rye Farm in Cranleigh (Surrey). Due to the similarity of Middle English forms it is now impossible to distinguish between the two explanations. See also Nye .
English: post-medieval form of Wray .
English: variant of Ray .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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