When Elizabeth C. Basham was born on 25 May 1864, in Camp Creek, Mercer, West Virginia, United States, her father, John Henry Basham, was 32 and her mother, Martha Ann Goodall, was 31. She married Jesse Hubbard Brammer on 2 February 1881, in Mercer, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Flat Top, Mercer, West Virginia, United States in 1910 and Shady Spring, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 18 October 1933, in Odd, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Brammer, Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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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 (Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex): variant of Barsham, a habitational name from any of the places in Norfolk and Suffolk called Barsham, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Bār ‘wild boar’ + Old English hām ‘homestead’.
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