When Margaret Williams was born about 1 January 1880, in Gelligaer, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, William John Williams, was 57 and her mother, Sarah Rogers, was 38. She married Morgan John Davis about 1903, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Carbondale, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and Carbondale Township, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. She died about 1950, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 72.
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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.
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English: variant of William , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America, this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages, such as Dutch Willems . Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
History: This surname was brought to North America from southern England and Wales independently by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, came to MA in 1630, but the clergyman was banished from the colony for his criticism of the Puritan government; he fled to RI and founded Providence.
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