Brief Life History of Amelia Elizabeth
When Amelia Elizabeth Kramer was born on 19 May 1878, in Indiana, United States, her father, Jacob H Kramer, was 41 and her mother, Mary E. Schmid, was 32. She married John Edward Peyton on 3 September 1902, in Vigo, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in South Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Pasadena Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 30 April 1963, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Altadena, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Amelia E Peyton in household of John E Peyton, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Amelia Elizabeth Kramer - Government record: Death record or certificate: birth-name: Amelia Elizabeth Kramer
- Amelia Kramer, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (mainly Krämer); Dutch: occupational name for a shopkeeper or trader, from an agent derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German krām ‘trading post, tent, booth’. This surname is also found in some other parts of Europe, e.g. in Britain, Poland, and France (Alsace and Lorraine); see also 2 below. In part, Kramer is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare Kraemer .
Americanized or Germanized form of Polish Kramarz , Czech Kramář, Slovak Kramár, Slovenian (compare 3 below), Croatian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian Kramar .
Slovenian: variant of Kramar . Compare 2 above and Cramer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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