When Charles Francis Greever was born on 10 August 1864, in Rochester, Andrew, Missouri, United States, his father, Leonidas George Washington Greever, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Hutton Porterfield, was 32. He married Emily Bell Gaw on 30 December 1903, in Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Prairie Township, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 8 March 1928, in Leavenworth, Kansas, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Mount Muncie Cemetery, Lansing, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Historical Boundaries: 1875: Leavenworth, Kansas, United States
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.
Probably an Americanized form of German Grever or, alternatively, Gruber . Compare Greaver .
Alternatively, perhaps an altered form of English Graver .
History: The Greevers trace their origin to Philip Greever, born in the mid 1740s probably in Germany (or, alternatively, in MD to Philip Ernst Gruber, an earlier immigrant from Germany), who in the second half of the 18th century came to VA and settled in Washington County. In VA he married Margaret Bosang, the daughter of David Bosang, who died in 1777 and whose will mentions Philip Gruber, Jr, as his son-in-law.
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