Beacher Cramer

Brief Life History of Beacher

When Beacher Cramer was born on 10 May 1903, in Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Mesamore H. Cramer, was 50 and his mother, Anna Elizabeth Schmuck, was 42. He married Nancy E Barkley in 1923, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Saltlick Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years and East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died on 17 August 1967, at the age of 64.

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Family Time Line

Beacher Cramer
1903–1967
Nancy E Barkley
1902–1953
Marriage: 1923
Messamore David Cramer
1924–1970
Anna Rebecca Cramer
1924–1997
Palmer Gilbert Cramer
1925–2001
Harrison Clifford Cramer
1927–1988
Lester Joseph Cramer
1928–1929
Wilmer R Cramer
1930–1999
Merle Delbert Cramer
1931–2005
Margaret Cramer
1936–
Ronald I Cramer
1940–2018
Robert E Cramer
1944–2010

Sources (18)

  • Buck Cramer in household of Messemon Cramer, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Beacher Cramer - Published information: birth-name: Beacher Cramer
  • Beacher Cramer, "Pennsylvania, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

World Events (8)

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

1905 · The Movie Theater

The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in. 

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

Name Meaning

German, Dutch, and Jewish: variant of Kramer ‘shopkeeper or trader’ and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this. The surname in this form is also found in some other parts of Europe, e.g. in Britain and France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine).

English: variant of Creamer 1.

Americanized form of Polish Kramarz , Czech Kramář, Slovak Kramár, Slovenian, Croatian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian Kramar , and Slovenian Kramer .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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