When Edward Poston was born in April 1860, in Durham, New Durham Township, LaPorte, Indiana, United States, his father, John Wesley Poston, was 26 and his mother, Elsie McKellips, was 19. He married Emma Mc Kellips on 29 July 1884, in Buchanan, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Powhattan, Brown, Kansas, United States in 1920 and Hiawatha, Brown, Kansas, United States in 1930. He died on 14 October 1939, in Horton, Brown, Kansas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Netawaka Cemetery, Netawaka, Jackson, Kansas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1877: Brown, Kansas, 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.
English:
topographic name for someone who lived by a postern gate, from Middle English postern(e) ‘side door or gate, secret door or passage’; in some cases it would have been a metonymic occupational name for a gatekeeper, and in some may be a habitational name from a place such as Postern in Kent or Derbyshire.
habitational name from Poston in Herefordshire or Poston in Shropshire, which is named with an Old English personal name Possa + thorn ‘thorn tree’.
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