When Della May Garrett was born on 12 May 1877, in Arkansas, United States, her father, Thomas Newton Garrett, was 23 and her mother, Willie B. Coleman, was 17. She married Walter Robinson Hurst on 29 August 1894, in Crawford, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Sebastian, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 12 February 1955, at the age of 77, and was buried in Van Buren, Crawford, Arkansas, United States.
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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.
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
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 (southern): from the Middle English personal name Gerad, a variant of either Gerald or Gerard .
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