Jane R. Garrett (born 1823)

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Jane's Parents

Benjamin Garrett Jr

Sarah Sallie Bloss

Jane R. Garrett

Parents:

Benjamin Garrett Jr

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Sarah Sallie Bloss

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Jane R. Garrett & James Washington Smith

Jane R. Garrett

James Washington Smith

Sarah E Smith

Spouse:

James Washington Smith

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Children:

Sarah E Smith

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Jane R. Garrett & John Everald Ferguson

Jane R. Garrett

John Everald Ferguson

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John Everald Ferguson

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Jane R. Garrett Smith; Wayne Co., WVA

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In 1823, in the year that Jane R. Garrett was born, on February 20th, British explorer James Weddell's expedition to Antarctica traveled 532 miles south of the Antarctic Circle - the southernmost position any ship had reached before. It would be more than 80 years before anyone sailed farther. The region of the Southern Ocean that he explored was later named the Weddell Sea.

In 1835, on June 2nd, P. T. Barnum and his "circus" began their first tour of the U.S. He had paid $1,000 for an elderly slave named Joice Heth, who he claimed was 161 years old and a former nurse for George Washington. Touring the northeast of the U.S., he made more than $1,000 per week. Joice died the next year - at about 80 years old.

In 1957, on October 4th, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first man made earth-orbiting satellite - and triggered the Space Race. Sputnik I was only 23 inches in diameter and had no tracking equipment, only 4 antennas, but it had a big impact.

In 1978, on November 18th, Jim Jones's Peoples Temple followers committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana - where they had moved, from San Francisco, as a group. Jones was the leader of the cult and ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch, which they did. Whole families (women and children included) died - more than 900 people in all.

In 1987, was the first time that a criminal in the United States - a serial rapist - was convicted through the use of DNA evidence.