When Charles Arguyle Pierce was born on 26 November 1879, in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, United States, his father, Henry Arguyle Pierce, was 24 and his mother, Nancy Ellen Jane Hilburn, was 20. He married Myrta Leone Tubbs on 16 September 1900, in Lubbock, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Ellis, Texas, United States in 1880. He died on 24 August 1966, in Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1890: Lubbock, Texas, United States
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
English, Welsh, and Irish: from the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Piers, Peres, Peris, an Old French nominative of Pierre or Per, the French form of Peter . Pierce is especially frequent in northwestern Wales and Lancashire, while Pearce is the more common spelling in the rest of England. In Ireland Pierce and Pearse represent a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais ‘son of Piaras’, a Gaelicized form of Piers.
Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.
History: Franklin Pierce (1804–69), 14th president of the US, was born in Hillsborough, NH, on the New England frontier. His English ancestor Thomas Pierce emigrated to Charlestown, MA, in 1633/34.
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