Brief Life History of Margaret Wilmot
When Margaret Wilmot Clements was born on 10 April 1859, in Oak Grove Township, Anoka, Minnesota, United States, her father, John Fenderson Clements, was 33 and her mother, Margaret Davis, was 35. She married Frederick A. Leathers on 23 June 1875, in Anoka, Anoka, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Grow Township, Anoka, Minnesota, United States in 1860. She died on 1 November 1935, in Ramsey Township, Anoka, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in West Oak Grove Cemetery, Oak Grove Township, Anoka, Minnesota, United States.
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- Margarett W Clements in household of John F Clements, "United States Census, 1860"
- Margret Butler, "Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949"
- Margaret Willmet Moulton, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
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1862 · The Dakota Conflict/War
The Dakota War was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of Dakota Native Americans. It began along the Minnesota River four years after Minnesota was admitted as a state. The Dakota made attacks on hundreds of settlers, which resulted in their deaths. A military tribunal sentenced 303 Dakota men to death for their crimes but 264 of them were exonerated. The remaining 38 were apart of a mass hanging on December 26 that same year. It was the largest mass execution in United States history.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Name Meaning
English, Irish (Tyrone and Antrim), and Dutch: variant of Clement , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. German Clementz and Slovenian patronymic Klemenc (see Klements ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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