When Epaphroditus Alexander Gainey was born in September 1864, in Darlington, South Carolina, United States, his father, John Alexander Gainey, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Howle, was 31. He married Aletha Howle before 1883, in Darlington, Darlington, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Leavensworth, Darlington, South Carolina, United States in 1880. He died in April 1944, at the age of 79, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Hartsville, Darlington, South Carolina, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
In March of 1871, in an attempt to supress the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, President Grant sends troops in. Later that year in October, the KKK are told to disarm and break up. They do not do this and later many are arrested by the US marshals.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Irish (Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Geigheannaigh or Mac Géibheannaigh ‘son (or descendant) of Géibheannach’, a byname meaning ‘fettered’.
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