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Personal data Dorothy Wear Walker 

  • She was born on July 1, 1901 in Walker's Pt, York Co., ME.Source 1
  • She died on November 19, 1992 in Greenwich, Fairfield Co., CT, she was 91 years old.Source 1

    Leeftijd:91y 4m 18d
  • This information was last updated on December 22, 2021.

Household of Dorothy Wear Walker

She is married to Prescott Sheldon Bush.

They got married on September 6, 1921 at Kennebunkport, York, Maine, she was 20 years old.


Child(ren):

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Notes about Dorothy Wear Walker


Dorothy Wear Walker Bush (July 1, 1901 – November 19, 1992), mother to 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, and the grandmother of 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush.[1] Time on her death wrote that"George (H.W.) Bush was shaped and tempered by his mother's nature."[2] Dorothy Bush raised her five children in a strongly religious home. During her childhood she attended church as many as three times each Sunday.[3]
[edit]Biography

She was born near Walker's Point, in York County, Maine, to George Herbert Walker and Lucretia "Loulie" (Wear) Walker (1874–1961).[4][5]
Walker attended Miss Porter's School and married Prescott Sheldon Bush on August 6, 1921, in Kennebunkport, Maine. They had five children: Prescott "Pressy" Bush, Jr. (1922–2010), George H. W. Bush (1924; (named after Dorothy's father,George Herbert Walker), Nancy Bush (1926), Jonathan Bush (1931), and William "Bucky" Bush (1938).[4][5]
Lucretia Wear was descended from French Huguenots (Gabriel and Marie Hersent Maupin) who arrived in America in 1700.
Dorothy Walker Bush died at age 91 in Greenwich, Connecticut, on November 19, 1992, only 16 days after her son lost the 1992 presidential election to Bill Clinton. She is interred with her husband Prescott Bush at Putnam Cemetery inGreenwich, Connecticut.[5]
[edit]Family

George H. W. Bush (born June 12, 1924), 41st President of the United States - Son
George W. Bush (born July 6, 1946), 43rd President of the United States and 46th Governor of Texas - Grandson
Jeb Bush (born February 11, 1953), 43rd Governor of Florida - Grandson
Barbara Bush (born June 8, 1925), Wife of 41st President - Daughter in law.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Dorothy Wear Walker

Dorothy Wear Walker
1901-1992

1921

Prescott Sheldon Bush
1895-1972

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Birthday July 1, 1901

  • The temperature on July 1, 1901 was between 13.2 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
    • January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
    • February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
    • March 23 » Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
    • April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
    • August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
    • October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.

Day of marriage September 6, 1921

  • The temperature on September 6, 1921 was between 5.7 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
    • February 21 » Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
    • May 8 » The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
    • July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
    • July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
    • October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
    • October 13 » Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.

Day of death November 19, 1992

  • The temperature on November 19, 1992 was between 5.0 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1992: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
    • February 15 » Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison.
    • March 13 » The Mw  6.6 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
    • September 29 » Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
    • October 12 » A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
    • November 20 » In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50million worth of damage.
    • December 31 » Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.


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