When John Henry Perry was born in January 1880, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Henry Clay Perry, was 38 and his mother, Nancy Wireman, was 40. He had at least 7 sons and 4 daughters with Rebecca B. Sargent-Ledford. He lived in Campton, Wolfe, Kentucky, United States in 1920 and Rosslyn, Powell, Kentucky, United States in 1930. He died on 20 July 1948, in Kentucky, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Wolfe, Kentucky, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1880: Powell, Kentucky, United States Historic Names: 1880: Merrill 1886: Catcreek 1898: Rosslyn
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.
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.
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Herry ‘son of Herry’, a variant of the personal name Harry (see Harris ).
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a pear tree (Middle English piri(e), peri(e), puri(e), Old English pirige, pyrige), or a habitational name for someone who owned or came from a place so named. This surname and a number of variants have been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
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