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 2
- 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
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- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963, 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.
- 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.
- August 1 » Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, although it remains legal in the possessions of the East India Company until the passage of the Indian Slavery Act, 1843.
- October 9 » Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
- 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 9.2 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 13.7 °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 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
- January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
- March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
- June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
- November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
- December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
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