Kelley Tree » William Rankin Strayer (1834-1928)
Personal data William Rankin Strayer
Source 1Sources 2, 3- He was born on November 6, 1834 in Southampton, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA.Sources 2, 3
- He died on August 5, 1928 in Cleversburg, Cumberland, PA, he was 93 years old.Sources 2, 3
- He is buried in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten.Source 3
- A child of John Strayer and Elizabeth Bowermaster
Household of William Rankin Strayer
(1) He has/had a relationship with Elizabeth LANE.
Child(ren):
- Maud M STRAYER 1894-1980
- Nellie STRAYER ± 1899-????
(2) He is married to Malinda A Strayer.
They got married in the year 1862 at Cleversburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA, he was 27 years old.
Child(ren):
- Margaret Strayer 1862-????
- Maggie A Strayer 1862-1918
- John I. A. Strayer 1864-????
- William Strayer 1865-1959
- William E Strayer 1866-1899
- Naomi Jane STRAYER ± 1867-1919
- Celia Strayer 1869-1928
- David Franklin Strayer 1870-1950
- George E. E. Strayer 1872-1947
- Maude Malinda Eutzy 1875-1952
- Carrie May Strayer 1877-1882
- Josephine Helm 1881-1955
- Farrel Strayer 1882-????
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Sources
- Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=54669640&pid=831
/ Ancestry.com - Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday November 6, 1834
- The temperature on November 6, 1834 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen winderig. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
- In the year 1834: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
- March 18 » Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
- May 16 » The Battle of Asseiceira is fought, the last and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
- May 30 » Minister of Justice Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law seizing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses" from the Catholic religious orders in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
- July 15 » The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
- October 16 » Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
- December 3 » The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
Day of death August 5, 1928
- The temperature on August 5, 1928 was between 10.2 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
- January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
- March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
- June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
- September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
- November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
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- 1933 » Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
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- 1939 » Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865)
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