When Temprence Jane Sisk was born on 15 November 1879, in Belmont, Kingman, Kansas, United States, her father, Jesse Anderson Sisk, was 35 and her mother, Anna Ellen Nelson, was 27. She had at least 1 daughter with Earl C. Miller. She lived in Belmont Township, Rooks, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Hopkins, Nodaway, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 15 April 1934, at the age of 54.
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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.
Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Irish (Cork): perhaps from Ó Siosta, a rare Munster surname apparently originating in Kerry, where the placename Tuath Ó Siosta ‘tribe of Ó Sioste’ (Anglicized as Tuosist) is based on the surname. This surname is found in County Cork since the 18th century.
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