When Elvira Meadows was born on 18 June 1864, in Wyoming, West Virginia, United States, her father, Eligah Richard Meadows, was 34 and her mother, Mary Moye, was 35. She married John Riley Farley on 8 June 1880, in Raleigh, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Rock District, Mercer, West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Slab Fork District, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 22 April 1900, in Raleigh, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Basin, Wyoming, West Virginia, 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."
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: variant of Meadow , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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