When Nona Skaggs was born on 19 October 1878, in Frankfort Township, Franklin, Illinois, United States, her father, Rev Abraham Davis Skaggs, was 35 and her mother, Frances Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, was 27. She married Van Henderson Tibbetts on 11 January 1898, in Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States for about 5 years and Oakridge Election Precinct, Lane, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 2 December 1954, in Lane, Oregon, United States, at the age of 76.
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The Great Gale of 1880 was a severe snow and wind storm that devastated parts of Oregon and Washington on January 9, 1880. The extratropical cyclone caused tides to rise seven feet, gale force winds, and snow accumulations of up to 18 inches.
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.
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.
English: variant of Skeggs, itself a variant, with post-medieval excrescent -s, of Skegg, a nickname from an unrecorded Middle English skegg ‘beard’ (Old Scandinavian skegg), for someone with a beard. Compare Scaggs .
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