Several deaths on this date. In 1963, granduncle George Moen died in Williston, North Dakota. He was injured in an oil rig accident and lay in a coma for seven years before his death.
In 1662, 8th great-grandfather Thomas Rowell died in Andover, Massachusetts. Years earlier, Thomas and his wife were sentenced to public whipping(!) after she became pregnant before they were married (!!!) Read more …
And in 1319, King Haakon V of Norway died. He is anecdotally our 17th great-grandfather, whose birthday was noted on 10 April.
