Brief Life History of William R
When William R Earney was born about 1864, in Crawford, Missouri, United States, his father, Joshua Pinkney Earney, was 36 and his mother, Mary Ann Traister, was 27. He lived in Union Township, Crawford, Missouri, United States in 1870. He died before 1880, in Crawford, Missouri, United States.
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- William R Arney in household of J P Arney, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: William R Earney - Government record: birth-name: William R Earney
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
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.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Irish: shortened and altered form of McInerny , which sometimes also appears as Nerney .
English: probably a variant of Arney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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