Dwight Ezra CroffAge: 43 years1861–1905
- Name
- Dwight Ezra Croff
- Given names
- Dwight Ezra
- Surname
- Croff
 Birth | August 16, 1861 |
 Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865Note: 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 5 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 5 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 7 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 |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 16 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Marriage | Martha Ann Brenneman — View this family December 6, 1894 (Age 33 years) |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Esther Mahree Croff April 11, 1896 (Age 34 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 36 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 |
 Census | June 16, 1900 (Age 38 years) |
 Death | May 13, 1905 (Age 43 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Oakridge Cemetery |
| Family with Martha Ann Brenneman |
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Dwight Ezra Croff Birth: August 16, 1861 — Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States Death: May 13, 1905 — Hayward, Alameda, California, United States |
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Martha Ann Brenneman Birth: July 29, 1868 — Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States Death: March 12, 1956 — Hawthorne, Los Angeles, California, United States |
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Marriage: December 6, 1894 — Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States |
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16 months daughter |
Esther Mahree Croff Birth: April 11, 1896 34 27 — Scott, Brown, Michigan, United States Death: May 28, 1991 — Multnomah, Oregon, United States |
No family available
| Census | 1900 United States - Census transcript - Dwight Ezra Croff - Household
Jefferson, Elkhart, Indiana, United States
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| Name | Esther M Hollenback (nee Croff) Obituary and Family Listing
HOLLENBACK, ESTHER M. (CROFF) THE OREGONIAN Thursday 30 May 1991
A memorial service for Esther M. Hollenback, a Gresham resident, will be at 5
p.m. Sunday in Good Shepherd Community Church in Boring. Burial was in Douglass
Cemetery in Troutdale.
She died of congestive heart failure Tuesday in a Gresham care center. Mrs. Hollenback
was 95.
Born April 11, 1896, in Scott County, Michigan, she was raised in Nebraska. Her
Maiden name was Croff. After earning her teaching certificate, she taught school
in Nebraska for several years.
She married Roy L. Hollenback, a pastor and evangelist, on April 28, 1918, in
Boone, Iowa. The couple lived in New York, Massachusetts, Indiana and in California.
Mrs. Hollenback moved to Gresham in 1976. She was a member of Good Shepherd Community
Church. Her husband preceded her in death.
She is survived by her daughters, Miriam Lewis of Bremerton, Washington and Bonnie :
Fiser of Greenwood, Arizona; sons, Dr. C. Byron of Mangum, Oklahoma, Roy Jr. of
McMinnville, David M. of Troutdale and Dwight of Salinas, California; 22 grandchildren,
23 great-—grandchildren and two great-great-—grandchildren.
The family suggests remembrances be contributions to Good Shepherd Community
Church.
United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012
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