When John Dockery was born on 23 April 1871, in Missouri, United States, his father, George Washington Dockery, was 29 and his mother, Martha Ellen Harville, was 22. He married Inez Effie Cyphers on 24 January 1891, in Hickory Creek, Grundy, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Jefferson Township, Grundy, Missouri, United States in 1900. He died on 26 October 1916, in Grundy, Missouri, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Matt Green Cemetery, Jefferson Township, Grundy, Missouri, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: variant of Dockray , a habitational name from any of several places in Cumbria called Dockray, from Middle English dokke (Old English docce) ‘docks or sorrel’ + Middle English wra (Old Norse vrá) ‘nook’, meaning ‘nook where dock grows’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dochraidh ‘descendant of Dochradh’, a personal name that is a variant of Dochartach (see Doherty ).
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