When Jesse Grigg Blackwell was born on 13 October 1860, in Scottsboro, Jackson, Alabama, United States, his father, John Peter Blackwell, was 43 and his mother, Mary Ann Grigg, was 40. He married Minnie Cansadia Anderson on 12 August 1888, in Perry, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Dekalb Township, Grant, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 8 December 1923, in Hulbert, Cherokee, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Hulbert, Cherokee, Oklahoma, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries 1869: Grant, Arkansas, 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.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Blackwell, for example in Cumbria, Derbyshire, County Durham, Warwickshire, Somerset, Devon, Sussex, and Worcestershire, named in Old English frp blæc ‘black, dark’ + wæll(a), well(a) ‘spring, stream’. Alternatively, it may be a topographic name for someone who lived by the ‘dark well or stream’, Middle English blak + wel(le).
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