Buitekant & Scheffer Family Tree » Marcellus C. "Selly" Pedigo (1859-1915)

Personal data Marcellus C. "Selly" Pedigo 

  • He was born in the year 1859 in Barren Co., Kentucky.
  • He died on August 25, 1915 in Lincoln, Logan Co, Illinois, he was 56 years old.

Household of Marcellus C. "Selly" Pedigo

He is married to Minerva M. Crews.

They got married at Kentucky.


Child(ren):

  1. Maude Lee Pedigo  1884-1927 


Notes about Marcellus C. "Selly" Pedigo

He moved to Illinois after his wife, Minerva Crews, died, leaving his young daughter, Maude behind. Not listed with the rest of his siblings and father in the census of 1880. He went by M.C. Pedigo in IL.

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Marcellus C. "Selly" Pedigo
1859-1915



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Historical events

  • The temperature on August 25, 1915 was between 8.9 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
    • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
    • May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
    • June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
    • June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
    • December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.


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