Otto Raymond Sarver
Otto Raymond Sarver was born nearly 138 years ago on November 27th, 1881 in Lincoln, Illinois to his Father Harvey, and Mother Phoebe Matilda Jackson...
** Interesting events that occurred around the World during Mr. Sarvers birth year of 1881 included...
• On January 25th, 1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company....
• On February 19th, 1881 Kansas becomes the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages...
• On March 4th, 1881 James A. Garfield is sworn in, as the 20th President of the United States...
• On July 2nd, 1881 newly-inaugurated United States President James A. Garfield: is shot by lawyer Charles J. Guiteau in Washington, D.C. The wound becomes infected, ultimately killing Garfield 2.5 months later on September 19th...
Chester A. Arthur is sworn in.as the 21st President of the United States the following day...
• On September 26th, 1881 Godalming in England becomes the first town to have its streets illuminated by electric light...
• On October 26th, 1881 the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral occurs in Tombstone, Cochise County Arizona ..
The gunfight was the result of a long-simmering feud with Cowboys Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury on one side and town Marshal Virgil Earp, Special Policeman Morgan Earp, Special Policeman Wyatt Earp, and temporary policeman Doc Holliday on the other...
Billy Clanton and both McLaury brothers were killed and both Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne ran from the fight... Virgil, Morgan, and Doc Holliday were wounded but Wyatt Earp was unharmed...
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Otto had an older Sister Cora who was born the day after Christmas in 1879, two younger Brothers Walter Franklin, and Parker Lee, as well as a Sister, Jennie... Otto's younger siblings all arrived into the World between 1883 and 1889...
Sarver Patriarch Harvey met a sudden end in Lincoln, Illinois on January 2nd, 1896 when he is struck by lightning and killed instantly
By early 1910, Otto was employed as an automobile machinist while living in Logan, Illinois... Later that same year he would relocate to New York City where he met and married native New Yorker Ethel Margaret Coffin who was 17 years old when they wed... While living in the big city he began working as a mate on a steam boat to support his newly established family...
Together Otto and Ethel would welcome two Sons into the World during their marriage... Raymond Emerson was born on March 1st, 1912 and William Jackson Sarver 5 and 1/2 years later on December 11th, 1917...
In June of 1918 Otto who by now had relocated his family to Tampa, Florida registered for the draft with the United States Navy during the First World War... Now in his late thirties Otto still supports his family while working on steamboats...
** Otto's Mother Phoebe Matilda Sarver would pass away in 1924 at the age of 71 and is buried beside her Husband Harvey in Illinois....
His career would require him to move his family to Jacksonville and then Miami before resettling in Tampa by 1930...
For the last decade of his life, Mr. Sarver was a successful storekeeper at the United States Customs office in Tampa, Florida....
Otto passes away at his home at the age of 58 on January 16th, 1940...
Otto Raymond Sarver ... Beloved Husband, Father, and proud Veteran of the United States Navy...