When Lillian Coones was born in August 1878, in Ontario, Canada, her father, William Ryerson Coones, was 43 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Blakely, was 34. She married George N Gage on 29 August 1899, in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Detroit Ward 4, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920 and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1930.
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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.
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Variant of Coons , a surname of German and Dutch origin.
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