When Mary Emily Sherouse was born on 25 April 1866, in Florida, United States, her father, William Marion Sherouse, was 24 and her mother, Nancy Susan Boyles, was 25. She married Louis Snively Light on 5 June 1881, in Alachua, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Alachua, Florida, United States in 1880. She died on 11 June 1912, in Reddick, Marion, Florida, United States, at the age of 46.
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This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
The Episcopal Diocese of Florida organized a mission church in 1878 to provide a location that could serve seasonal guests. Visitors and residents from Green Cove Springs raised over $1000 to build the church. On March 10, 1879, the Church held its first service. This location is notable because it would eventually be added to U.S. National Register of Historic Places (February 17, 1978).
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.
Variant of Shearouse , a surname of Austrian German origin.
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