Brief Life History of Minerva Eleanor
When Minerva Eleanor Acuff was born on 15 August 1864, in Ash Grove, Greene, Missouri, United States, her father, Samuel S Acuff, was 29 and her mother, Ann Connell Scott, was 24. She married Charles Wesley Boyd in 1878, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Rock Prairie Township, Dade, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 22 December 1942, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Morrisville Cemetery, Morrisville, Polk, Missouri, United States.
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- Ellender Acuff in household of Ann C Guthrie, "United States Census, 1880"
- Menerva E. Acuff Boyd, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ellen E E Acuff in entry for Charles Boyd, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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World Events (8)
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: perhaps a variant of northern English Aculf, from an Old Norse personal name Agúlfr ‘terror wolf’.
Probably an Americanized form of German Eickhoff . Compare Acoff .
History: The name first appears in North America in VA and PA in the early 1700s and later became concentrated in the Appalachian regions of NC and TN. The earliest records of Acuff occur with the personal names Timothy and David, indicating (in PA at least) Episcopal Church membership, thereby implying English origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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