When William DeWees Parsons was born on 25 January 1878, in Chatsworth, Livingston, Illinois, United States, his father, Wilson R. Parsons, was 31 and his mother, Anna Fronfield Dewees, was 26. He married Jennie Mae Jack on 28 January 1903, in Cass, North Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Filer, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States in 1910 and Sunny Ridge Election Precinct, Canyon, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 13 September 1969, in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Canyon, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1880: Livingston, Illinois, United States
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.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
English: occupational name for the servant of a parish priest or parson, from the possessive case of Middle English persone, parsoun (see Parson ).
English: many early examples are found with the prepositions (e.g. Ralph del Persones 1323); these are habitational names, with the omission of house, hence in effect occupational names for servants employed at the parson's house.
English: post-medieval variant of Parson , with excrescent -s. Alternatively, Parson may be a shortened form of Parsons.
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