Downs Tree » Starlena L. Rountree (1862-1883)

Personal data Starlena L. Rountree 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4Sources 1, 2, 4
  • She was born on May 2, 1862 in Amite, Mississippi.Sources 1, 2, 4
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1880: Cains, Franklin, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten.Source 4
    • in the year 1900: Police Jury Ward 7, Livingston, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten.Source 1
  • She died on July 14, 1883 in Denham Springs, Livingston, Louisiana, USA, she was 21 years old.Source 2

    Fout Attention: Deceased (July 14, 1883) prior to birth (??-09-1884) of child (Vertis Verdie Thornton).

    Fout Attention: Deceased (July 14, 1883) prior to birth (??-01-1893) of child (Azelie Thornton).

    Fout Attention: Deceased (July 14, 1883) prior to birth (??-01-1889) of child (John Thornton).

    Fout Attention: Deceased (July 14, 1883) prior to birth (November 14, 1887) of child (Mertis Cleveland Thornton).

    Fout Attention: Deceased (July 14, 1883) prior to birth (??-10-1885) of child (Curtis Thornton).

    Fout Attention: Deceased (July 14, 1883) prior to birth (??-03-1896) of child (Pharley Thornton).

    Fout Attention: Deceased (July 14, 1883) prior to birth (??-03-1898) of child (Ethel Thornton).

    Fout Attention: Deceased (July 14, 1883) prior to birth (??-10-1899) of child (Lucious Thornton).

    Fout Attention: Deceased (July 14, 1883) prior to birth (??-06-1890) of child (Rosa Thornton).

    Fout Attention: Deceased (July 14, 1883) prior to birth (??-10-1894) of child (Cassie Thornton).

  • A child of Starling T. Rountree
  • A child of Nancy Virginia Steele

Household of Starlena L. Rountree

She is married to William Jefferson Thornton.

They got married in the year 1881 at Franklin County, Mississippi, she was 18 years old.Source 1


Child(ren):

  3. Curtis Thornton  1885-1918
  5. John Thornton  1889-????
  6. Rosa Thornton  1890-????
  7. Azelie Thornton  1893-????
  8. Cassie Thornton  1894-????
  9. Pharley Thornton  1896-????
  10. Ethel Thornton  1898-????
  11. Lucious Thornton  1899-????

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Sources

  1. 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  2. Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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  4. 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Birthday May 2, 1862

  • The temperature on May 2, 1862 was about 19.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • March 23 » American Civil War: The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Although a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
    • April 12 » American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw).
    • May 1 » American Civil War: The Union Army completes its capture of New Orleans.
    • May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
    • May 31 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
    • September 17 » American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.

Day of death July 14, 1883

  • The temperature on July 14, 1883 was about 16.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1883: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 19 » The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
    • February 23 » Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
    • May 20 » Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
    • July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
    • August 26 » The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
    • August 27 » Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.


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Source: Wikipedia

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