Brief Life History of Eva C.
When Eva C. Bench was born on 5 July 1878, in Wayne, West Virginia, United States, her father, Hezekiah Bench, was 40 and her mother, Cynthia A. Roody, was 29. She married Fleming H Stanley in 1898, in Wayne, Wayne, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Union District, Wayne, West Virginia, United States for about 30 years.
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- Eva Stanley in household of Phlegm Stanley, "United States Census, 1910"
- Eva C. Bench, "West Virginia Births, 1853-1930"
- Eva Bench, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
English (West Midlands): topographic name for someone who lived by a bank or raised piece of ground, from Middle English bench(e), banch, binch(e) ‘bench, bank, terrace’ (from Old English benc), signifying one who lived at or near a terrace or (river) bank.
Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Benč: from a pet form of a personal name derived from Latin Benedictus (see Benedict and Benko ).
Possibly also an altered form of German Bensch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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