Turner Family Tree » Ross Willis (1888-1934)

Personal data Ross Willis 

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Household of Ross Willis

He is married to Ella Marie Bruce.

They got married about 1905.


Child(ren):

  1. Dorothy Bruce Willis  1912-1999 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Ross Willis

Benjamin Willis
1815-< 1865
Mary A Willis
1824-????
Peter Wyckoff
1826-1895
Julia Ann Hazen
1827-1920

Ross Willis
1888-1934

± 1905

Ella Marie Bruce
1886-1981

Dorothy Bruce Willis
1912-1999

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    Sources

    1. Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
      http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=151189639&pid=111
      / Ancestry.com
    2. U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    3. New York, New York, Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    4. Web: Brooklyn, New York, Green-Wood Cemetery Burial Index, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    5. 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1910; Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 8, Kings, New York; Roll: T624_959; Page: 17B; Enumeration District: 0149; FHL microfilm: 1374972 / Ancestry.com
    6. Death Certificate, Department of Health City of New York, April 15, 1934
      Widow was Carrie Willis Buried at Greenwood Cemetary
    7. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    8. 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1900; Census Place: Neptune, Monmouth, New Jersey; Page: 4; Enumeration District: 0136 / Ancestry.com
    9. Findagrave, Ross Willis Apr 1934 / www.findagrave.com

    Historical events

    Birthday April 29, 1888

    • The temperature on April 29, 1888 was about 9.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
      • March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
      • April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
      • August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
      • August 14 » An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
      • October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
      • October 21 » Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.

    Day of death April 15, 1934

    • The temperature on April 15, 1934 was between 8.3 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
      • January 1 » A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
      • May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
      • June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
      • June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
      • September 22 » The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
      • December 11 » Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.

    Day of burial April 21, 1934

    • The temperature on April 21, 1934 was between 1.7 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
      • February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
      • April 21 » The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
      • May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
      • July 11 » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
      • September 22 » The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
      • September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.
    

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