When Rebecca J. McAdams was born about 1848, in Fayette, Ohio, United States, her father, John McAdams, was 45 and her mother, Nancy Garrison, was 40. She married David S. Morris on 28 August 1864, in Clinton, Indiana, United States. She lived in Concord Township, Fayette, Ohio, United States in 1850.
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Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Irish (northern): variant of McAdam with the redundant addition of the English patronymic ending -s.
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