Brief Life History of Caroline
When Caroline Groves was born on 3 November 1876, in Camp Creek Township, Pike, Ohio, United States, her father, PVT Andrew Jackson Groves, was 33 and her mother, Nancy Anna Strutt, was 24. She married Henry Sanford Walls on 1 January 1897, in Pike, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Pebble Township, Pike, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 10 June 1934, in Benton Township, Pike, Ohio, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Gardner Cemetery, Waverly, Pike, Ohio, United States.
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- Caroline Groves in household of Andrew J Groves, "United States Census, 1880"
- Groves, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Caroline Walls, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
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English (London): variant of Grove , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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