When Russell Leroy Ratliff was born on 12 October 1906, in Oklahoma, United States, his father, William Truman Ratliff, was 33 and his mother, Wilma Adella Brown, was 24. He married Opal Clara Shirley on 12 October 1925. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Harrison Township, Grundy, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 14 July 1994, in San Dimas, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in La Verne Cemetery, La Verne, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Oklahoma is the 46th state.
Angel Island served as a western entry point for hundreds of thousands of U.S. immigrants, mainly from China, from 1910 to 1940.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
English (Suffolk): habitational name from one or more of the places so named, such as Radcliffe (Lancashire), Radcliffe on Trent and Ratcliffe on Soar (both Nottinghamshire), Radclive (Buckinghamshire), Ratcliffe Culey and Ratcliffe on the Wreake (both Leicestershire), Ratclyffe in Clyst Hydon, Ratcliffes in Thorverton, and Ratcliffes in Broad Clyst (all Devon), Ratcliff in Stepney (Middlesex), and Rackley in Compton Bishop (Somerset). The placenames derive from Old English rēad ‘red’ + clif ‘cliff, bank, steep slope’ (see also Rutley ). A family of the name Radcliffe trace their descent from Sir Nicholas de Radclyffe. He is said to have been a knight who held the major of Radcliffe in Lancashire and served Roger de Poitou, Baron de Marsey in the 11th century.
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