When William Lee Vaughan was born on 24 July 1863, in Port Royal, Caroline, Virginia, United States, his father, William Heiter Vaughan, was 24 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth "Bettie" Henshaw, was 25. He married Martha Jane "Jennie" Cockes on 15 January 1890, in Virginia, United States. He lived in Newtown, King and Queen, Virginia, United States in 1880 and Bermuda District, Chesterfield, Virginia, United States for about 20 years. He died on 21 December 1924, in Surry, Virginia, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Vaughan-Eyler Family Cemetery, Chesterfield, Virginia, United States.
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Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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.
Welsh: from fychan, a lenited form of bychan, a diminutive of bach ‘little’. This was often used to distinguish the younger of two bearers of the same personal name, typically the son of a father with the same name.
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