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Emma 'Emmie' Halley
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Emma 'Emmie' Halley
8/2/1883 - 10/9/1945
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Emma 'Emmie' Halley was born on August 2, 1883 in Blountstown, Florida and died on October 9, 1945 in Panama City, Florida. She lived to be 62 years old.
Married on 9/13/1896 to William Vickers. She is buried at Millville Cem. in Panama City, FL. | 
 | Census | 6/1/1885 | FL (Calhoun County) | 1 yrs old | Florida State Census, Dwelling Number 153/Family #169: Caleb Halley (age 52), Mary (age 35), Jno (age 16), Nancy (age 19), Porlier (age 15), Price (age 13), Susan (age 10), Gaddis (age 9), Charlie (age 7), and Emma (age 3). Caleb is a farmer and says he was born in Alabama and the birth place of both parents is unknown. Mary was born in Florida and both parents in GA. All of the children were born in FL.
| Additional information about Calhoun County, FL around 1885: The principle towns in Calhoun County were Blountstown, Marysville, Chipola, Selman, Ocheesee, and Abe Springs. In 1884 railroads in Florida were bought out by one company and placed under central management. River Junction, located at the junction of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers, is the closest railroad and the primary hub of land transports. The photo on the right shows the iron bridge than spans the Chattahoochee River about a mile from the Depot at River Junction where wharves, storage, steamboats and hotels bussel with activity. Click the photo for a larger view. Click here to see a map from this timeperiod. | 
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| Marriage | 9/13/1896 | FL (Calhoun County) | 13 yrs old | | Wm. L.Vickers married Emma Halley on Sept. 13, 1896 in Calhoun Co., FL |
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1884 |
Most railroads in Florida are passed into the hands of a single company owned and operated by a single management, under the name of The Florida Railway and Navigation Company. It has more that 500 miles of main track in operation and about 300 miles of track under construction. The longest route was the "Western Division" which ran from Tallahassee to Jacksonville - 209 miles. |
| 23 |
1906 |
An attempt to drain the Everglades and convert it to farmland begins. |
| 34 |
1917 |
Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction. |
| 45 |
1928 |
The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy. |
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1889 |
The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards |
| 12 |
1895 |
Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance. |
| 14 |
1897 |
First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph |
| 17 |
1900 |
The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control. |
| 17 |
1900 |
Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams" |
| 18 |
1901 |
First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent. |
| 19 |
1902 |
The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered. |
| 20 |
1903 |
Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk |
| 21 |
1904 |
The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming |
| 23 |
1906 |
Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes |
| 23 |
1906 |
Electrons are discovered by Thomson |
| 23 |
1906 |
The triode vacuum tube is invented |
| 29 |
1912 |
The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people. |
| 30 |
1913 |
Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant |
| 31 |
1914 |
The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed |
| 40 |
1923 |
Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id" |
| 40 |
1923 |
Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes |
| 41 |
1924 |
Insecticides are used for the first time on crops |
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1926 |
Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket |
| 44 |
1927 |
The first television transmission was announced in England |
| 45 |
1928 |
Big bang theory was introduced |
| 53 |
1936 |
The first regular television broadcast happens in England |
| 55 |
1938 |
Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission |
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1885 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen. |
| 25 |
1908 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile |
| 29 |
1912 |
White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out. |
| 30 |
1913 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures |
| 34 |
1917 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism. |
| 36 |
1919 |
NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty. |
| 55 |
1938 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic. |
| 56 |
1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
| 58 |
1941 |
NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers. |
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| 26 |
1909 |
The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP) |
| 27 |
1910 |
Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area. |
| 44 |
1927 |
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. |
| 46 |
1929 |
Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October |
| 47 |
1930 |
Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states. |
| 49 |
1932 |
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered. |
| 50 |
1933 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone! |
| 51 |
1934 |
Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains. |
| 51 |
1934 |
Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize. |
| 52 |
1935 |
Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time. |
| 56 |
1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
| 60 |
1943 |
Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit. |
| 61 |
1944 |
On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day") |
| 62 |
1945 |
President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. |
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| 26 |
1909 |
The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe |
| 31 |
1914 |
World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days. |
| 34 |
1917 |
Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes. |
| 36 |
1919 |
The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I. |
| 37 |
1920 |
Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made. |
| 55 |
1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
| 56 |
1939 |
Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun. |
| 62 |
1945 |
World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
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| William Vickers
Born on October 2, 1882 and died about 1966.
They were married 9/13/1896.
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