When Richard Frank Crouch was born on 1 July 1886, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Augustus A Crouch, was 27 and his mother, Eliza Jane Sisk, was 26. He married Goldie Avis Woods on 27 March 1911, in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 6, Whitley, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 22 May 1961, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Glen Haven Memorial Park, Sylmar, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
English (southeastern): from Middle English crouch(e), cruch(e) ‘cross’ (Old English crūc, ultimately from Latin crux, crucem; the Old English crūc was replaced in Middle English by the word cross, from Old Norse kross), applied as a topographic name for someone who lived by a cross.
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