Brief Life History of Ralph Dewey
When Ralph Dewey Timberlake was born on 2 April 1899, in Hammonville, Hart, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Sherman Timberlake, was 37 and his mother, Mary E. Lester, was 28. He married Elsie Walton Richardson on 29 November 1919, in Jeffersonville, Jeffersonville Township, Clark, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Terre Haute, Sullivan, Indiana, United States for about 5 years and Otter Creek Township, Vigo, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died on 4 December 1992, at the age of 93, and was buried in Hart, Kentucky, United States.
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- Ralph Timberlake, "United States Census, 1940"
- Ralph D Timberlake, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Ralph Dewey Timberlake, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1900 · Governor Shot
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
1926 · Mammoth Cave is Discovered
In 1926, in central Kentucky, Mammoth Cave was discovered. It dates back to Mississippian times and consists of over four hundred miles of passageway. On July 1, 1941, the cave was made a National Park.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a lost place in the parish ofBayton, Worcestershire, so named from Old English timber‘timber, wood’ + lacu ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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