Anna Lee Beasley was born in November 1863, in Georgia, United States. She married Milton McKenzie Haygood on 12 March 1893, in Polk, Georgia, United States. She lived in District 1156, Berrien, Georgia, United States in 1900 and Quitman, Brooks, Georgia, United States for about 30 years. She died in 1943, at the age of 80, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Quitman, Brooks, Georgia, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
While attending the play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English:
variant of Bisley, a habitational name from any of the places called Bisley in Gloucestershire and Surrey (the former named with the Old English personal name Bisa + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, the later named with either a personal name or Old English bysce ‘copse, bushes’ + lēah), or Bisseley (a lost place in Coventry, Warwickshire).
habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Beesley, probably named with Old English bēos ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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