Brief Life History of Fayette Thomas
When Fayette Thomas Harris was born on 24 May 1876, in Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, Thomas Henry Harris, was 35 and his mother, Caroline Cherry, was 30. He married Georgina Jeanetta Zinns on 7 August 1899, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 6 June 1912, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 36, and was buried in Centerville City Cemetery, Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Fay T Harris, "United States Census, 1910"
- Fay T Harris, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Fayette Thomas Harris, "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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