James Richard Crick

Brief Life History of James Richard

When James Richard Crick was born on 9 April 1876, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Jacob Frank Crick, was 21 and his mother, Barbry J. Usselton, was 23. He married Susan Loucinda Throneberry on 17 November 1893, in Coffee, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Iron Mound Township, Logan, Oklahoma, United States in 1930 and Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma, United States for about 5 years. He died on 30 July 1957, in Crescent, Logan, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Crescent, Logan, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Richard Crick
1876–1957
Susan Loucinda Throneberry
1874–1953
Marriage: 17 November 1893
Rose Ella Crick
1895–1960
Crick
1897–
Thurman Elmer Crick
1901–1912
Daisy Lou Crick
1902–1966
Elisha Lloyd Crick
1904–1985
Dollie Mary Crick
1907–1992
Florence C Crick
1908–1996
Mattie Lee Crick
1910–1984
Freelon Crick
1913–2006
Cordia M Crick
1915–
Marshall Crick
1918–2006

Sources (27)

  • James R Creek, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Legacy NFS Source: James Richard Crick - Government record: birth-name: James Richard Crick
  • James Crick, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"

World Events (8)

1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.

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.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from Crick in Northamptonshire, from Celtic creig ‘rock, cliff’.

English: occasionally a topographic name for someone who lived by an inlet, from a Middle English borrowing of Old Norse kriki.

Possibly also an Americanized form of any of the German and Dutch surnames mentioned at Creek 3.

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

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