Rebecca Eleanor Varner1844–
- Name
- Rebecca Eleanor Varner
- Given names
- Rebecca Eleanor
- Surname
- Varner
- Married name
- Rebecca Eleanor Burkhead
 Birth | October 14, 1844 40 35 |
 Marriage | Linnaeus Scipio Burkhead — View this family unknown |
 Death of a maternal grandfather | Eli Carroll June 22, 1846 (Age 20 months) |
 Historical Event | Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848 (Age 14 months)Note: The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War |
 Census | September 24, 1850 (Age 5 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Franklin Varner 1855 (Age 10 years) |
| Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859 (Age 12 years)Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884 |
| Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 16 years)Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 22 years)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 22 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 24 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Census | July 29, 1870 (Age 25 years) |
| Birth of a son #1 | Marcus Aurelius Burkhead February 15, 1874 (Age 29 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | Edgar McCauley Burkhead November 7, 1875 (Age 31 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 33 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Catherine Burrage June 1, 1880 (Age 35 years) |
| Census | June 2, 1880 (Age 35 years) |
| Death of a father | Matthew Varner 1882 (Age 37 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 53 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 71 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 72 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 73 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 84 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 97 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 105 years)Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 101 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
 Death | unknown |
| Family with parents |
| father |
Matthew Varner Birth: 1804 — North Carolina, United States Death: 1882 — North Carolina, United States |
| mother |
Nancy Carroll Birth: 1809 23 20 — North Carolina, United States Death: |
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Marriage: — |
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| elder brother |
Eli C Varner Birth: 1837 33 28 Death: |
| sister |
Catherine Varner Death: |
| herself |
Rebecca Eleanor Varner Birth: October 14, 1844 40 35 — Davidson, North Carolina, United States Death: |
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11 years younger brother |
Franklin Varner Birth: 1855 51 46 — North Carolina, United States Death: |
| Family with Linnaeus Scipio Burkhead |
| husband |
Linnaeus Scipio Burkhead Birth: April 3, 1847 — North Carolina, United States Death: |
| herself |
Rebecca Eleanor Varner Birth: October 14, 1844 40 35 — Davidson, North Carolina, United States Death: |
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Marriage: — |
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| son |
Marcus Aurelius Burkhead Birth: February 15, 1874 26 29 — North Carolina, United States Death: |
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21 months son |
Edgar McCauley Burkhead Birth: November 7, 1875 28 31 — North Carolina, United States Death: |
| Census | 1850 United States - Census transcript - Matthew Varner - Household
Davidson, North Carolina, United States
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| Census | 1870 United States - Census transcript - Matthew Varner - Household
Davidson, North Carolina, United States
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| Census | 1880 United States - Census transcript - Linnaeus Scipio Burkhead - Household
Davidson, North Carolina, United States
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