When Lucy Delp was born on 23 September 1878, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, her father, Peter A Delp, was 75 and her mother, Parthenia Angeline Montgomery, was 40. She lived in Virginia, United States in 1878 and Sulphur Spring, Tazewell, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 1 June 1887, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, at the age of 8, and was buried in Nige Lineberry Cemetery, Carroll, Virginia, United States.
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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.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
South German: nickname for a clumsy person, from Middle High German talpe, tape ‘paw’.
German: in some cases, possibly also a northern topographic name for someone living by a ditch, Middle Low German delf (frequently an element in compound field names in swampy terrain).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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