When Mary Walters was born in February 1863, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Squire Walters, was 24 and her mother, Elzina Elgina Layman, was 18. She married James Pence Goff on 20 June 1888, in Hodgenville, LaRue, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 1 Hodgenville, LaRue, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Encino, Torrance, New Mexico, United States in 1910. She died on 15 November 1910, in Muskogee, Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
English: variant of Walter , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
German: patronymic from Walter .
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