Brief Life History of Florence Myrtle
When Florence Myrtle Pearsall was born in April 1878, in Tennessee, United States, her father, William Coniver Pearsall, was 55 and her mother, Susan Wesley Jones, was 38. She lived in Delaware, Indiana, United States in 1935 and Milton, Washington Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 18 July 1955, in Richmond, Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Milton, Washington Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States.
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- Florence Wharton in household of Emma Woods, "United States Census, 1920"
- Florence P. Bryant, "Find A Grave Index"
- Florence P Wharton in household of George W Wharton, "United States Census, 1910"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English (West Midlands):
habitational name from Pearshall in Staffordshire. The placename probably derives from Old English pise, peosu ‘pea’ + halh ‘nook, corner of land’.
occasionally a variant of Purcell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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