Brief Life History of Catherine Elizabeth
When Catherine Elizabeth Boggs was born on 17 May 1876, in Powellsville, Scioto, Ohio, United States, her father, John W. Boggs, was 26 and her mother, Mary M. Knapp, was 27. She married John Singer Rickard on 22 December 1892, in Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 14 February 1945, in Madison, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Guide Rock, Webster, Nebraska, United States.
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- Carrie Rickard in household of John S Rickard, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Caroline Elizabeth Boggs - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Caroline Elizabeth Boggs
- Carrie E Boggs, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
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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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English bogeys ‘boastful or haughty’. The name (in the forms Boge(y)s, Boga(y)s) is found in the 12th century in Yorkshire and East Anglia, and also around Bordeaux, which had trading links with East Anglia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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