Brief Life History of Ralph Evert "Red"
When Ralph Evert "Red" Crane was born on 27 February 1919, in Jeffers, Cottonwood, Minnesota, United States, his father, Stephen Myron Crane, was 40 and his mother, Cecile Rose Else, was 38. He married Emilianna Mary "Emily" Novak in 1943, in Bunnell, Flagler, Florida, United States. He lived in United States in 1949 and Lawrence, South Dakota, United States in 1950. He died on 28 September 1990, in Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Beaches Memorial Park, Atlantic Beach, Duval, Florida, United States.
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- Ralph Crane, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ralph Evert Crane - Published information: birth-name: Ralph Evert Crane
- Ralph Everrett Crane, "Florida Marriages, 1830-1993"
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World Events (8)
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1931 · The Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: nickname, most likely for a tall, thin man with long legs, from Middle English cran ‘crane’ (the bird), Old English cran, cron. The term included the heron until the introduction of a separate word for the latter in the 14th century.
Manx: see Craine .
Dutch: variant of Krane ‘crane’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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