When Orvarene Zina Adair was born on 27 April 1865, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Robert Alexander Adair, was 26 and her mother, Lurena Ellen Clapp, was 19. She married William Gideon Walker on 27 February 1884, in Knox, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Civil District 5, Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1920. She died on 3 April 1923, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Clapps Chapel Cemetery, Corryton, Knox, Tennessee, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
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.
Scottish (Galloway) and northern Irish: from the Scottish personal name Adair, a form of Edgar .
History: James Adair (c. 1709–83) was an ‘Indian trader’ in SC from 1735; he was born in Antrim, northern Ireland. Baron William Adair, from Scotland, also settled in SC at around the same period.
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