Brief Life History of George Henry
When George Henry Cramer was born on 27 July 1863, in Saltlick Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Samuel King Cramer, was 48 and his mother, Anna Maria Maurer, was 46. He married Fannie H Geary about 1880, in Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 13 October 1924, in Saltlick Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- George Cramer in household of Samuel Cramer, "United States Census, 1870"
- George H Cramer, "Find a Grave Index"
- George Cramer in entry for Carrie May Purbaugh, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
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.
Name Meaning
German, Dutch, and Jewish: variant of Kramer ‘shopkeeper or trader’ and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this. The surname in this form is also found in some other parts of Europe, e.g. in Britain and France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine).
English: variant of Creamer 1.
Americanized form of Polish Kramarz , Czech Kramář, Slovak Kramár, Slovenian, Croatian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian Kramar , and Slovenian Kramer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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