When Mary Ann Welcher was born on 14 February 1857, in Casey, Kentucky, United States, her father, Jeremiah E. Wilcher, was 32 and her mother, Matilda J. Wall, was 33. She died on 2 February 1934, in Lincoln, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 76.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
German: habitational name for someone from Welchau (Czech Velichov) in Bohemia.
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