When Nettie Mae Olmstead was born on 3 January 1900, in Perry, Noble, Oklahoma, United States, her father, Leonard Joshua Olmstead, was 39 and her mother, Laura Catherine Jeffers, was 35. She married John Franklin Beckham on 1 June 1925, in Stillwater, Payne, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Blackwell, Kay, Oklahoma, United States in 1930 and Blackwell Township, Kay, Oklahoma, United States in 1950. She died on 1 June 1982, at the age of 82, and was buried in Perry, Noble, Oklahoma, United States.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Oklahoma is the 46th state.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
English: habitational name from Olmstead Green in Cambridgeshire.
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