When Josephine Wilda Reedy was born on 3 March 1896, in Blue Rapids, Marshall, Kansas, United States, her father, William M Reedy, was 42 and her mother, Lillie Frances Jewell, was 34. She married Chester Arthur Thurston on 24 March 1914. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Paradise Township, Rooks, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Saline Township, Ellis, Kansas, United States in 1915. She died on 23 October 1915, in Codell, Rooks, Kansas, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in Norman Cemetery, Ellis, Kansas, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Scottish: habitational name from Reedie in Airlie (Angus), recorded as villa de Rethyn in 1264, or a place of the same name in Auchtermuchty (Fife), both named with Scottish Gaelic rèidh + -in ‘flat place’.
Irish: from Ó Riada ‘descendant of Riada’, a personal name meaning ‘traveler, rider’.
Irish and Scottish: from Gaelic Mac Riada, see McCready .
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