Brief Life History of Besssie Conover
When Besssie Conover Lewman was born on 18 July 1877, in Indiana, United States, her father, Moses T Lewman, was 44 and her mother, Naomi L Conover, was 41. She had at least 4 daughters with James Reed Riggs. She lived in Greencastle, Greencastle Township, Putnam, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died on 24 March 1957, in Sullivan, Sullivan, Indiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Center Ridge Cemetery, Sullivan, Sullivan, Indiana, United States.
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- Bessie L Riggs in household of James Riggs, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mrs. Bessie L. Riggs - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Mrs. Bessie L. Riggs
- Indiana, Marriage Index, 1800-1941
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1898 · War with the Spanish
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.
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Possibly an Americanized form of German Luhmann 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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