Riches to Rags Family Tree » Bessie Townsend (± 1883-????)

Personal data Bessie Townsend 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  • She was born about 1883 in Alabama.Sources 3, 4, 5
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1935: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan.Source 3
    • in the year 1940: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, Verenigde Staten.Source 3
    • in the year 1930: Hazel Green, Madison, Alabama.Source 4

Household of Bessie Townsend

She is married to O B Stevenson.

They got married on January 10, 1905 at Madison, Alabama.Sources 1, 5


Child(ren):

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Bessie Townsend

Bessie Townsend
± 1883-????

1905

O B Stevenson
± 1883-????

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Sources

  1. Alabama, Select Marriages, 1816-1942, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  2. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  3. 1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1940; Census Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; Roll: m-t0627-01888; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 84-1560B / Ancestry.com
  4. 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1930; Census Place: Hazel Green, Madison, Alabama; Roll: 37; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0028; Image: 879.0; FHL microfilm: 2339772 / Ancestry.com
  5. Alabama, County Marriages, 1805-1967, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Day of marriage January 10, 1905

  • The temperature on January 10, 1905 was between -0.1 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • January 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
    • May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
    • June 7 » Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
    • October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
    • October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
    • November 12 » Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.

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