Brief Life History of John Craig
When John Craig Rummel was born on 24 April 1843, in Ohio, United States, his father, Ludwig Friedrich Rummel, was 38 and his mother, Anna Craig, was 27. He married Martha Hickenlooper on 16 September 1880, in Nodaway, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Missouri Township, Chariton, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Bancroft Cemetery, Bancroft, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1900. He died on 13 May 1926, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.
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- John C Rummel, "United States Census, 1900"
- John C Rummell, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- John Rummell, "United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
North German: variant of Rommel .
German: from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal named formed with hruom ‘fame’.
German: perhaps a nickname for a noisemaker, from Middle High German rummeln ‘to make noise, to move impetuously’, which, however, is not recorded until the 15th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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