When Martha Ann Thompkins was born on 4 August 1856, in South Carolina, United States, her father, John Jack T. Thompkins, was 28 and her mother, Martha A. James, was 25. She had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Alexander Smith. She lived in Horry, South Carolina, United States in 1860 and Dog Bluff, Horry, South Carolina, United States in 1880. She died on 4 February 1942, in South Carolina, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Horry, South Carolina, United States.
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In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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: variant of Tompkins .
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