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Hillsman Rudolph Howard

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	Charles Harrison Howard 11/23/1897 - 2/15/1925	Mary Jane (Daniel) Howard 6/10/1898 - 1/28/1974

About Hillsman Rudolph Howard

Hillsman Rudolph Howard
11/1/1924 - 5/13/2000
(Shown at age 35)

Hillsman Rudolph Howard was born on November 1, 1924 in Calhoun County, Georgia and died on May 13, 2000 in Lee County, Georgia. He lived to be 75 years old.

He was always called H.R. or "Bud" . He married Myrtis Wilkes and they had two children. He served in the Army in WWII, stationed in active duty in France. After the war he owned his own business H. R. Howard Construction Company in Albany, Georgia.
Second marriage to Melba Roundtree Prince.

Census	4/23/1930	Farmers Academy GA (Randolph County)	5 yrs old
#236-Charlie L. Gatlin (age 37), Mary Gatlin (33), Thelma Gatlin (10), Sarah Gatlin (8), Hillsman Gatlin (6), Ruby Gatlin (4), Mary F. Gatlin (0).Street address: Shellman and Morgan Rd.All were born in GA. Charlie is a farm laborer. Charlie states he was first married at age 21, Mary states she was first married at age 32.
Census	4/4/1940	Cordray GA (Calhoun County)	15 yrs old
page 4, #34, Sinnie Howard (age 61) and grandson Hilman Howard (age 18). Sinnie is a widow, she rents her home located on Highway 55-Dawson Road, Farm: Yes, Residence in 1935: Rural, Terrell, Georgia, Hilman is single, he works as a Farm Laborer . He worked 35 weeks in 1939. His income was $80 , His Highest Grade Completed in school was the 7th grade. Monthly Rental $2
Military	8/31/1944	GA (Randolph County)	19 yrs old
Name: Hillsman R. Howard, Birth Year: 1924, Race: White, citizen , Nativity State or Country: Georgia, State of Residence: Georgia, County or City: Randolph, Enlistment Date: 31 Aug 1944, Enlistment State: Georgia, Enlistment City: Fort Mcpherson Atlanta, Branch: No branch assignment, Branch Code: No branch assignment, Grade: Private, Grade Code: Private, Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law, Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men), Source: Civil Life, Education: Grammar school, Civil Occupation: Farm hands, general farms, Marital Status: Single, without dependents, Height: 01, Weight: 100
Newspaper	1/1/1956	Albany GA (Dougherty County)	31 yrs old
Name: Hilsman R. Howard, Gender: Male, Residence Year: 1956, Residence Place: Albany, Georgia, Occupation: Engineer, Spouse: Myrtis Howard, Publication Title: Albany, Georgia, City Directory, 1956
Newspaper	1/1/1960	Albany GA (Dougherty County)	35 yrs old
Name: Hillsman Howard, Gender: Male, Residence Year: 1960, Street address: 804 Gary, Residence Place: Albany, Georgia, Occupation: Carpenter, Spouse: Myrtice Howard, Publication Title: Albany, Georgia, City Directory, 1960
Other	5/13/2000	Leesburg GA (Lee County County)	75 yrs old
Social Security Death Index: Hillsman R. Howard, born November 1, 1924, died in Lee County Georgia on May 13, 2000. His SSN was issued in GA before 1951 and his last residence was in Leesburg, GA.
Census	5/15/2000	Albany GA (Dougherty County)	75 yrs old
H. R. "Bud" Howard -Birth: 1924 - Death: 2000 Burial: Floral Memory Gardens , Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia SA

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Age	Date	Event
2	1926	Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
3	1927	The first television transmission was announced in England
4	1928	Big bang theory was introduced
12	1936	The first regular television broadcast happens in England
14	1938	Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
22	1946	The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
23	1947	Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
27	1951	The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
28	1952	The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
33	1957	Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
36	1960	The ruby laser was created by Maiman
38	1962	U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
41	1965	The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
47	1971	The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union
50	1974	Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright
51	1975	Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)
55	1979	First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination
57	1981	AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space.
62	1986	Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher.
65	1989	An asteroid comes relatively close to colliding with the earth
66	1990	Hubble Space Telescope launched; optical defect discovered and repaired later in 1993.
70	1994	The world watches comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (S-L 9) colliding with Jupiter
73	1997	First Pathfinder vehicle lands on Mars and begin sending first photographs of Martin landscape. These are made available on the internet.
74	1998	Construction begins on the International Space Station.
76	2000	Successful cloning of animals begins in the early 2000s.

Age	Date	Event
14	1938	NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
15	1939	NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
17	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.
26	1950	NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
31	1955	NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
36	1960	NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
39	1963	NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
45	1969	NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface.
46	1970	NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest.
53	1977	NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.
60	1984	NEWS HEADLINES: The first Macintosh computer with a mouse is launched and begins the computer age as it is shortly followed by the first PC and Microsoft.
68	1992	NEWS HEADLINES: The "World Wide Web" (Internet) became available for home use through college and university sponsored "freenets".
76	2000	December 28, 2000 - Montgomery Ward, the retail giant since its founding one hundred and twenty-eight years before, announces its intention to cease business. Competition from newer, low-cost retail behemoths such as Wal-Mart lead to its demise. Over the next 10 years Wal-Mart pushes most other 'dime store' businesses to closure.
76	2000	April 3, 2000 - The ruling in the case of the United States versus Microsoft states that the company did violate anti-trust laws by diminishing the capability of its rivals to compete.
76	2000	November 7, 2000 - George W. Bush, son of the former President, and Vice President Al Gore hold a virtual dead-heat for the presidency, with a disputed vote in Florida holding off the naming of the winner of the President Election until the Supreme Court of the United States voted in favor of Bush on December 12. This ruling gave Florida to the Bush camp by a 527 vote majority, and a victory in the Electoral College, 271-266, despite gaining less popular votes than Gore.
76	2000	The 2000 census enumerates a population of 281,421,906, increasing 13.2% since 1990. As regions, the South and West continued to pick up the majority of the increase in population, moving the geographic center of U.S. population to Phelps County, Missouri.
76	2000	June 1, 2000 - For the first time since 1851, the United States of America does not participate in a major World's Fair, the Hannover 2000 World Expo, despite a record number, 187, of international participants. President Bill Clinton had withdrawn U.S. participation late in 1999 after agreement to participate in 1997. Congressional apathy toward participation in world events continues a decline in U.S. involvement after the fall of the Soviet Union and victory in the Cold War. A consequence of this policy has led to a rise, among some experts, of anti-American sentiment, and a decline of U.S. influence in diplomatic affairs. Less than half, 18.1 million, of the original attendance estimate, 40 million, visit Hannover's event.

Age	Date	Event
3	1927	Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
5	1929	Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
6	1930	Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
8	1932	Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
9	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!
10	1934	Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
10	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.
11	1935	Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
15	1939	Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
19	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.
20	1944	On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
21	1945	President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
30	1954	The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency.
38	1962	The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
42	1966	The Black Panther party is founded.
43	1967	Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad.
47	1971	Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
48	1972	Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
49	1973	The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.
53	1977	Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.
57	1981	Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican)
63	1987	January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County.
63	1987	President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles.
65	1989	George Bush is elected president. (Republican)
69	1993	Bill Clinton is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Democrat)
70	1994	O.J. Simpson is chased down by police and later his trial is telecast for the world to watch.
73	1997	A robust economy creates the longest prosperity in U.S. history.
75	1999	United States budget goes into surplus.

Age	Date	Event
14	1938	Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
15	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.
21	1945	World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
65	1989	The Berlin Wall falls uniting communist East Germany and capitalistic West Germany
66	1990	Iraq (Sadam Hussein) invades Kuwait causing the U.N. to impose sanctions. This leads to the Gulf War.
68	1992	North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is formed.
69	1993	South Africa accepts racial equality.
72	1996	Pope John Paul II affirmed evolution by natural selection
75	1999	Yugoslavia breaks up and Serbia is contained.
76	2000	Internet, cellphones, and social networking (using websites such as Twitter and Facebook) begin to grow in popularity and become standards for most house holds by 2010.
76	2000	China begins to emerge as an economic giant.

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Myrtis Wilkes
Born on July 10, 1924 and died on June 4, 2017

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