When Dora Ann "Delila" Braddy was born on 12 August 1864, in Georgia, United States, her father, Daniel Robert Braddy, was 37 and her mother, Mary Page, was 28. She married William Riley Smith about 1880. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in District 91, Washington, Georgia, United States in 1870. She died on 16 January 1887, in Washington, Georgia, United States, at the age of 22, and was buried in Harrison, Washington, Georgia, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"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."
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
English (Essex): habitational name from any of various places called Broad(e)y, meaning either ‘broad island’ or ‘broad enclosure’, from Middle English brōd ‘broad’+ eie ‘island’ (Old English brād + ēg) or Middle English brōd + hegh ‘enclosure’ (Old English brād + (ge)hæg). Compare Broady .
Irish: from Mac Brádaigh or Ó Brádaigh, see Brady .
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