When Lucy Ann Callis was born on 20 August 1877, in Oldham, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Overton Callis, was 41 and her mother, Maria Melissa Rouner, was 30. She married William Alexander Wright on 21 November 1900. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Gaston, Washington Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States in 1935 and Alexandria, Monroe Township, Madison, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died in November 1957, in Anderson Township, Madison, Indiana, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Anderson, Madison, Indiana, 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.
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from the French port of Calais.
Greek: variant of Kallis .
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