When Agnes Claret Kelsey was born on 10 May 1858, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, Eli Brazee Kelsey Sr., was 38 and her mother, Mary Ann McIntyre, was 30. She married Richard Adams on 8 February 1877, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States in 1860 and Cherry Creek, White Pine, Nevada, United States in 1880. She died on 22 December 1929, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries 1871: Spokane Falls, Stevens, Washington Territory, United States 1879: Spokane Falls, Spokane, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Spokane Falls, Spokane, Washington, United States 1891: Spokane, Washington, United States
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.
English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from an uncertain initial element (perhaps an Old English personal name with genitive -es) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.
History: William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
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