When Dora Edna Ward was born on 17 April 1870, in Macon, Illinois, United States, her father, Joseph Franklin Ward, was 35 and her mother, Nancy Ida Pasley, was 29. She married Ira Griffin Warnick on 22 November 1888, in Macon, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in South Wheatland Township, Macon, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Township of Flat Branch, Shelby, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 7 January 1892, in Blue Mound Township, Macon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Brown Cemetery, Argenta, Macon, Illinois, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Historical Boundaries: 1874: Macon, Illinois, United States
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).
English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.
Irish: shortened form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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