When John Massey was born in 1881, in Winifrede, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, his father, George Washington Massey, was 29 and his mother, Samantha A Weaver, was 23. He died in 1881, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
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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.
English: from the Middle English personal name Massy, a pet form of Matthew . Compare Mace .
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from one or more of several places in Normandy, such as Macey (Manche), Massy (Seine-Maritime), Macé-sur-Orne (Orne), and La Ferté Macé (Orne).
English: variant of Marsay (see Marcey ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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