When Susan C. Lancaster was born on 26 August 1860, in Stone, Arkansas, United States, her father, William Ewing Lancaster, was 36 and her mother, Amanda Wilson, was 33. She married Robert F. Berry on 17 November 1878, in Stone, Arkansas, United States. She died about 1934, at the age of 75.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries 1873: Stone, 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 Lancaster in northwestern England, which is recorded as Loncastre in 1086. The place takes its name from the river Lune + Old English ceaster ‘city, Roman fortification’ (from Latin castra ‘legionary camp’). The river name is probably British, perhaps related to Gaelic slán ‘healthy’, ‘salubrious’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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