Brief Life History of William Wallace
When William Wallace Ware was born on 24 January 1877, in Mississippi, United States, his father, Andrew Lafayette "Fate" Ware, was 27 and his mother, Georgia Ann Feazel, was 28. He married Esther Leona Blakeney in November 1896. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Smith, Mississippi, United States in 1950. He died on 13 February 1955, in Mississippi, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Bezer, Smith, Mississippi, United States.
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- Wellace Ware, "United States 1950 Census"
- William Wallace Ware, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- W. Wallace Ware, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English:
topographic name for someone who lived by or looked after a dam or weir on a river (from Old English wær, wer, Middle English war(e), warre, wer(e), werre ‘weir’), or a habitational name from a place called with this word, such as Weare (Somerset), Weare Giffard (Devon), or Ware (Hertfordshire).
topographic name for someone who lived by a horse pond or fish pond, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English wayour, which became early modern English ware, wear.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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