Brief Life History of Joseph R
When Joseph R Chalk was born in 1855, in Ohio, United States, his father, Ranson Robinson Chalk, was 36 and his mother, Caroline Jumper, was 29. He married JULIA C. SAVAGE on 1 November 1888, in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States. He lived in Wyandotte, Kansas, United States in 1875 and Wyandotte Township, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 29 May 1889, in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, at the age of 34.
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- Joseph Chalk in household of Ranson Chalk, "United States Census, 1870"
- JOSEPH R. CHALK, "Kansas, Marriages, 1811-1911"
- Joseph Chalk in household of R M Chalk, "Kansas State Census, 1875"
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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.
1861
Kansas is the 34th state
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English (Hampshire and Wiltshire): habitational name from Bower Chalke or Broad Chalke (Wiltshire), or Chalk (Kent), or occasionally a topographic name from residence on or near a chalk down, from Old English cealc ‘chalk’, here ‘chalky soil’, or an Old English cealce ‘chalk down’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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