When Anna Cruse was born on 26 September 1871, in Clark, Kentucky, United States, her father, Hayden Cruse, was 53 and her mother, Susan Thompson, was 36. She married Milton Barnett Parrish on 20 January 1892, in Clark, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 1 Goodes, Clark, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Magisterial District 4, Clark, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 29 November 1950, in Clark, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Parrish Cemetery, Clark, Kentucky, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name probably from an unidentified place in Normandy named with Old French crues, crus, creus ‘hollow’. Creuse (in Somme, Picardy) and Cruys-Straëte (formerly in Flanders, now in the French département of Nord), which have the same etymology, are alternative possibilities but seem less likely on geographical and tenurial grounds.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English crus(e) ‘bold, fierce’, although the regular development would be to Crowse (rhyming with house).
North German: variant of Krause .
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