When Mary Stewart Turney was born on 8 April 1858, in Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Jacob Turney, was 33 and her mother, Mary Stewart Richardson, was 23. She lived in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. She died on 19 October 1944, in Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 86.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
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.
English (of Norman origin):
habitational name from any of the places in northern France called Tournai-sur-Dive (Orne), Tournay-sur-Odon (Calvados), or Tourny (Eure), or occasionally from Tournai in Hainaut (Belgium).
perhaps occasionally an occupational name from Middle English tournei, turnai ‘lawyer’ (Anglo-Norman French tourné), or a nickname from Middle English tournei(en) ‘(to) joust, take part in a tournament’ (Old French torneier). Compare Turner .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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