When Johnson Morgan Aldridge was born on 15 February 1863, in Winchester, Clark, Kentucky, United States, his father, James R Aldridge, was 30 and his mother, Mary Ann Watts, was 26. He married Nannie Yarbrough on 7 September 1892, in Winchester, Clark, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Warren, Iowa, United States in 1935 and New Virginia, Warren, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 12 September 1942, in Indianola, Warren, Iowa, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in New Virginia, Warren, Iowa, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Historical Boundaries: 1869: Wilson, Kansas, United States
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English:
from the Middle English personal names Alrich or Elrich and Aldrich or Eldrich, representing any one of three Old English personal names, Æthelrīc, Ælfrīc, and Ealdrīc, formed respectively from æthel- ‘noble’, ælf ‘elf, sprite’, and (e)ald ‘old, honored’ + rīc ‘ruler’.
habitational name from Aldridge (Staffordshire), Aldridge Grove in Hampden (Buckinghamshire), or from a similarly named unidentified place in the West Midlands, recorded in Domesday Book as Alrewic, from Old English alor ‘alder’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’.
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