Elsie Zerriffie Shoemaker

Brief Life History of Elsie Zerriffie

When Elsie Zerriffie Shoemaker was born on 1 November 1877, in Toronto, Clinton, Iowa, United States, her father, George H Shoemaker, was 33 and her mother, Angeline Arminda Trask, was 29. She married George Richard Burcham on 23 August 1917, in Shelby, Iowa, United States. She lived in Shelby, Iowa, United States in 1905 and Shelby, Shelby, Iowa, United States for about 5 years. She died on 16 October 1941, in Harlan, Shelby, Iowa, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Harlan Cemetery, Harlan, Shelby, Iowa, United States.

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George Richard Burcham
1867–1967
Elsie Zerriffie Shoemaker
1877–1941
Marriage: 23 August 1917

Sources (15)

  • Riffie Shoemaker in household of James A Shoemaker, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Riffie Shumaker, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • Elsie Zerriffie Burcham, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"

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World Events (8)

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.

1884 · There is now a Capital Building

The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.

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

Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Schoemaker , German and Jewish Schumacher , Slovenian Šuštar (see Sustar ) or Greek Papoutsis .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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