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Household of Almira Russell Hancock

She is married to William Sherman Fitch.

They got married on December 20, 1899 at Clarksdale, Coahoma, Mississippi, USA, she was 21 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Almira Russell Hancock

Winfield Scott Hancock
1824-1886
Almira Russell
1832-1893
Nicholas Gwynn
± 1830-± 1890
Elizabeth A. Greathouse
± 1830-> 1880

Almira Russell Hancock
1878-1915

1899

William Sherman Fitch
1875-1927


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    Historical events

    Birthday January 14, 1878

    • The temperature on January 14, 1878 was about 6.6 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 25 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • January 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
      • January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
      • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
      • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
      • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
      • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.

    Day of marriage December 20, 1899

    • The temperature on December 20, 1899 was about -2.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1899: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • January 23 » The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President.
      • February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
      • March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
      • June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
      • November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
      • December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.

    Day of death February 1, 1915

    • The temperature on February 1, 1915 was between -1.5 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
      • April 25 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
      • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
      • 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.
      • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
      • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
      • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
    

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