When Josephine Bounds was born in 1864, in Kime, Wayne, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Franklin Bounds, was 26 and her mother, Martha Ann Radford, was 24. She married George Washington Conley on 19 March 1883, in Reynolds, Missouri, United States. She lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Shannon, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died in 1888, at the age of 24.
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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."
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
English: variant of Bond , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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