Genealogy for
Paschal Cooper Vann
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Paschal Cooper Vann
1868 - 1940
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Paschal Cooper Vann was born about 1868 somewhere in Alabama and died about 1940 in Calhoun Co., Florida. Dates for birth and death are estimated. He lived to be about 72 years old.
He was called Pasco. | 
 | Census | 4/29/1910 | Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) | 42 yrs old | | Recorded as family #115: Pasco Van (age 36) and Liza (age 20). Pasco states that he and his parents were born in the U. S. Liza states that she and her parents were born in Florida. Pasco is a farmer. |
| Military | 10/3/1918 | FL (Cahoun County) | 50 yrs old | | Name: Paschal Cooper Vann,
County: Calhoun,
State: Florida,
Birth Date: March 21,1872,
Race: White, occupation: farmer, Next of kin: Eliza A. Vann, Height: medium, Build: medium, Eye color: Brown |
| Census | 1/17/1920 | Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) | 52 yrs old | | dweling#192 family #197: Pasco C. Van (age 52), Liza (age 28) and John D. (son, age 2). Pasco and his parents were born in AL. Liza, her parents and their son were born in Florida. Pasco is a laborer working on a farm. Pasco can read and write while Liza cannot. The family owns a radio. |
| Census | 1/1/1935 | FL (Calhoun County) | 67 yrs old | Page 37, line 49 -
P.C. Van (age 65),
Liza Van (42),
J.D. Van (18),
Gladys Van (13)
next door -
Frank Davis (83), Florence Adams (65)widow |
| Census | 5/13/1940 | FL (Calhoun County) | 72 yrs old | | #237 -Pascal Vann (70),
Eliza Alice Vann (50),
John D. Vann (22),
Gladys Vann (17). Address: They live near Cypress Road. Pascal was born in AL, all others in FL. Pascal and John work as farm laborers. |
| Death Certificate | 3/1/1957 | FL (Bay County) | 17 yrs after death | | The death of Paschal Cooper Vann is recorded in Bay County, Florida in Volume 1860, Certificate #7217 sometime in March 1957. |
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1870 |
During the 1870s, the remaining Seminole Indians begin establishing trading posts and other economy with local settlers. |
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1882 |
The Florida Central and Western Railroad Company was created. It combines the Florida Central, Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mobile railroads. |
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1883 |
Three railroad companies are merged to form the Florida Transit and Penisular Railroad Company. Thee are: Florida Transit Railroad Co., Peninsular Railroad Co, and the Tropical Florida Railroad Co. |
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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. |
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1906 |
An attempt to drain the Everglades and convert it to farmland begins. |
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1917 |
Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction. |
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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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1869 |
Cro-magnon Man fossils are found in France |
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1877 |
Edison invents the phonograph permitting music and voices to be recorded and replayed. |
| 11 |
1879 |
Edison invents the electric light bulb. |
| 21 |
1889 |
The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards |
| 27 |
1895 |
Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance. |
| 29 |
1897 |
First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph |
| 32 |
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. |
| 32 |
1900 |
Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams" |
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1901 |
First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent. |
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1902 |
The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered. |
| 35 |
1903 |
Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk |
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1904 |
The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming |
| 38 |
1906 |
Electrons are discovered by Thomson |
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1906 |
The triode vacuum tube is invented |
| 38 |
1906 |
Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes |
| 44 |
1912 |
The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people. |
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1913 |
Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant |
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1914 |
The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed |
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1923 |
Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes |
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1923 |
Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id" |
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1924 |
Insecticides are used for the first time on crops |
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1926 |
Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket |
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1927 |
The first television transmission was announced in England |
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1928 |
Big bang theory was introduced |
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1936 |
The first regular television broadcast happens in England |
| 70 |
1938 |
Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission |
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1882 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison creates the first large power station in New York City, making it the first place in America to have electricity. |
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1885 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen. |
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1908 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile |
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1912 |
White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out. |
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1913 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures |
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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. |
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1919 |
NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty. |
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1938 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic. |
| 71 |
1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
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1875 |
Tennessee enacts Jim Crow law. |
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1876 |
The National League of Baseball is founded |
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1909 |
The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP) |
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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. |
| 59 |
1927 |
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. |
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1929 |
Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October |
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1930 |
Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states. |
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1932 |
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered. |
| 65 |
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! |
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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. |
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1934 |
Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize. |
| 67 |
1935 |
Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time. |
| 71 |
1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
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1909 |
The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe |
| 46 |
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. |
| 49 |
1917 |
Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes. |
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1919 |
The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I. |
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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. |
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1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
| 71 |
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. |
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 | Eliza Davis
Born on May 15, 1889 and died about 1970
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The Children of Paschal Cooper Vann
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John Daniel Vann
Born in Calhoun, Florida on March 21, 1917 and died in Leon, Florida on October 28, 1985. He was 68 years old.
married Alma McKeown....
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Gladys Otheda Vann
Born in Blountstown ,Calhoun County, Florida on February 8, 1922 and died in Tallahassee ,Leon County, Florida on December 24, 2004. She was 82 years old.
She was a nurse at Sunland Hospital. She lived in Tallahassee, FL for 47 years. She was an ordained minister and a former pastor at Fort Braden Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Children:
Edgar All...
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