When John F. Fiveash was born on 16 November 1877, in Benton, Mississippi, United States, his father, George Washington Fiveash, was 24 and his mother, Francie T. Queen, was 24. He lived in Beat 1, Benton, Mississippi, United States in 1880 and Civil District 13, Fayette, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died on 16 August 1905, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Woods Cemetery, Hickory Valley, Hardeman, Tennessee, United States.
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When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
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.
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English: probably a topographic name for someone who lived in a place distinguished by five ash trees, from Middle English five ‘five’ + ashe ‘ash (tree)’. Five Ashes in Hadlow Down, Sussex was so named around 1512.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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