Brief Life History of Clinton Ward
When Clinton Ward Riser was born on 12 March 1924, in Little Mountain, Newberry, South Carolina, United States, his father, Clinton Ward Riser, was 43 and his mother, Louise Mayes Reid, was 33. He lived in United States in 1949 and Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 21 October 2016, in Hendersonville, Henderson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Lexington, Lexington, South Carolina, United States.
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- Clint Riser, "United States Census, 1940"
- Clinton W Jr Riser, "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
- Clinton Ward Riser, "Find a Grave Index"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War
The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
Name Meaning
Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived near a thicket or underbrush, from an agent noun based on Middle High German rīs ‘branch, shrubbery’.
Possibly an Americanized form of German Reiser .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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