Brief Life History of Troy Ellis
When Troy Ellis Sink was born on 13 June 1898, in Whitman, Washington, United States, his father, Thomas Floyd Sink, was 49 and his mother, Lenora Jane Eslinger, was 25. He married Della Doris Buroker on 12 June 1921, in Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States. He lived in Election Precinct 4 Missoula City, Missoula, Montana, United States in 1940 and Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 18 January 1954, in Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Corvallis, Ravalli, Montana, United States.
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- Troy Sink in household of Thomas Sink, "United States Census, 1900"
- Washington, Birth Records, 1870-1935
- Troy E Sink, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1902
Historical Boundaries 1902: Teton, Montana, United States 1919: Pondera, Montana, United States
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
South German: rare variant of Zinck or Zink and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
English (Surrey): perhaps a variant of Sing .
Slovenian (Šink): nickname from šink ‘(smoked) pig's neck’, dialectally also ‘neck of an animal’ in general.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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