When Margaret Elizabeth Walden was born on 14 April 1877, in Arkansas, United States, her father, Jeremiah Fletcher Walden, was 31 and her mother, Louisa Ann Carter, was 28. She married John Simpson Abercrombie on 9 July 1899, in Polk, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in McAlester, Pittsburg, Oklahoma, United States in 1920 and Roswell, Chaves, New Mexico, United States in 1930. She died on 4 November 1950, in Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Bakersfield, Kern, California, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1889: Chaves, New Mexico Territory, United States 1912: Chaves, New Mexico, United States
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English: habitational name from Kings Walden and Saint Pauls Walden (Hertfordshire), Saffron Waldon (Essex), Waldon in Milton Damerel (Devon), and Walden (North Yorkshire). The placenames derives from Old English walh ‘foreigner, Briton, serf’ (genitive plural wala) + denu ‘valley’.
German: patronymic from Wald 3.
Americanized form of Norwegian Wolden or Volden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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