When Jenny Melissa Mcclaughry was born on 20 September 1857, in Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio, United States, her father, Samuel Ellsworth McClaughry, was 32 and her mother, Sarah Ann Lewis, was 26. She married Charles Ephraim Diamond Whittecar Jr. on 20 September 1879, in Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Linton Township, Coshocton, Ohio, United States in 1860 and North Township, Wallace, Kansas, United States in 1900. She died on 28 April 1934, in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1859: Arapahoe, Kansas Territory, United States 1859: El Paso, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Colorado Territory, United States 1861: El Paso, Colorado Territory, United States 1876: El Paso, Colorado, United States
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.
Irish: possibly of Scottish origin, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Clochaire ‘son of the stonemason’. Sometimes, by misinterpretation of clochaire as cloch an rí ‘stone of the king’, the name was ‘translated’ in Ireland as Kingston . A Scottish Gaelic version, Mac Clachair, was Anglicized as McClacher and shortened to Clacher.
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