When Eliza Mallory was born on 23 December 1863, in Indiana, United States, her father, William Mallory, was 34 and her mother, Mary Pennington, was 23. She married Ephraim Kensler on 12 October 1882, in Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 7 May 1913, in Palmyra Township, Knox, Indiana, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Palmyra Township, Knox, Indiana, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
While attending the play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South.
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 (of Norman origin): nickname for an unfortunate person, from Old French maloret, maloré, maleuré ‘ill-fortuned, unlucky’.
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