When Martha Jane Short was born on 8 March 1877, in Wise, Virginia, United States, her father, Henry Lewis Short, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Lavina Riggs, was 17. She married William M Boggs on 2 June 1892, in Wise, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Roberson District, Wise, Virginia, United States in 1940 and Wise, Wise, Virginia, United States for about 1 years. She died on 8 July 1962, in Pound, Wise, Virginia, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Cox Cemetery, Pound, Wise, Virginia, United States.
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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.
On May 30, 18944 the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument was unveiled. It is 73 feet high and over looks Libby Hill Park. the statue represents the 13 Confederate States.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English: nickname for a short person, from Middle English short ‘short’ (Old English sceort).
English: topographic name for someone who lived at a detached or cut-off piece of land (Middle English shorte, shirte, from Old English scierte, scerte, scyrte) or else a habitational name from a place so named, such as Shoart in Harbeldown (Kent) and Shuart in Saint Nicholas at Wade (Kent). Compare Shorter .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac an Gheairr, Mac an Ghirr ‘son of the short man’ (see McGirr ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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