Martha Ann BrennemanAge: 87 years1868–1956
- Name
- Martha Ann Brenneman
- Given names
- Martha Ann
- Surname
- Brenneman
- Married name
- Martha Ann Croff
 Birth | July 29, 1868 |
 Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 5 months)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 9 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Marriage | Dwight Ezra Croff — View this family December 6, 1894 (Age 26 years) |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Esther Mahree Croff April 11, 1896 (Age 27 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 29 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 31 years) |
| Death of a husband | Dwight Ezra Croff May 13, 1905 (Age 36 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 47 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Marriage of a child | Roy Leonidas Hollenback Sr — Esther Mahree Croff — View this family April 28, 1918 (Age 49 years) |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 48 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 49 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/ |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Miriam Esther Hollenback April 27, 1919 (Age 50 years) |
| Census | January 26, 1920 (Age 51 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | Chester Byron Hollenback February 14, 1923 (Age 54 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #3 | Roy Leonidas Hollenback Jr September 9, 1926 (Age 58 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #4 | David Mervel Hollenback August 9, 1928 (Age 60 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 61 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 |
| Birth of a granddaughter #5 | Bonnie Elizabeth Hollenback November 12, 1931 (Age 63 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #6 | Dwight Calvin Hollenback May 14, 1933 (Age 64 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 73 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 81 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 77 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 | March 12, 1956 (Age 87 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Evergreen Cemetery |
| Family with Dwight Ezra Croff |
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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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| Census | 1920 United States - Census transcript - Martha Ann Brenneman - Household
Oklahoma, Oklahoma, 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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