Brief Life History of Seth Harvey
When Seth Harvey Rumsey was born on 28 November 1872, in Eddyville, Pope, Illinois, United States, his father, Richard Monroe Rumsey, was 47 and his mother, Nancy Malinda Echols, was 41. He married Cora A. Whiteside on 16 October 1907. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Harrisburg Township, Saline, Illinois, United States in 1950. He died on 19 December 1959, in Pope, Illinois, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Ioof Cemetery, Golconda, Pope, Illinois, United States.
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- Seth Rumsey, "United States 1950 Census"
- Seth Rumsey, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
- Seth Rumsey, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Romsey (Hampshire), from an Old English personal name Rūm (genitive Rūmes) + Old English ēg ‘island, raised ground in marshland’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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