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Ancestors (and descendant) of Benjamin Sylvester Spence

Francis Marion Spence (3xGG)
1830-1909
Uriah Kent Rushing
1837-1905
Louvinia Vinnie Beard
1836-1905

Benjamin Sylvester Spence
1898-1927


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    1. 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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    Historical events

    Day of death March 23, 1927

    • The temperature on March 23, 1927 was between 8.2 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
      • January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
      • April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
      • April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
      • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
      • June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
      • December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
    

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