When Fannie H Seeley was born on 1 June 1864, in Sodus Center, Wayne, New York, United States, her father, Milton M Seely, was 41 and her mother, Harriet Ellen Holmes, was 30. She married William H Webler on 22 March 1916, in Geneva, Ontario, New York, United States. She lived in South, Cameroon in 1900 and Wayne, New York, United States in 1920. She died on 7 December 1940, in Sodus, Wayne, New York, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Brick Church Cemetery, Sodus Center, Wayne, New York, 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."
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: nickname for a person with a cheerful disposition, from Middle English seli ‘happy, fortunate’ (Old English sǣlig, from sǣl ‘happiness, good fortune’). The word was also occasionally used as a female personal name during the Middle Ages. The sense ‘pitiable’, which developed into modern English silly, is not attested before the 15th century. See also Selman .
Altered form of German Seele , respelled to preserve the bisyllabic pronunciation of the German name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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