Johana Schwarber

9 June 1868–4 April 1943 (Age 74)
Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

The Life of Johana

When Johana Schwarber was born on 9 June 1868, in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, her father, Johannes Schwaber, was 33 and her mother, Anna Barbara Schneider, was 29. She married Arthur Lincoln Davis on 29 September 1887, in Lincoln, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Salt Lake City Ward 5, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 4 April 1943, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Arthur Lincoln Davis
1865–1936
Johana Schwarber
1868–1943
Marriage: 29 September 1887
Arthur Robert Davis
1890–1950
Estella Isabella Davis
1891–1967
Allen Llewellyn Davis
1893–1947
Chester George Davis
1896–1945
Charles Leonard Davis
1898–1943
Webester Bascom Davis
1900–1963

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
29 September 1887
Lincoln, Nevada, United States
children

(6)

+1 More Child

Parents and Siblings

    Johannes Schwaber

    Male1835–1886Male

    Anna Barbara Schneider

    Female1839–1901Female

siblings

(1)

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Age 2

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote

Age 2

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

Age 22

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

Name Meaning

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from an inflected form of Middle High German swarz, German schwarz, meaning ‘the black one or the dark one’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Sources (3)

  • Johanna Davis, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Johanna Davis in household of Arthur L Davis, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Johanna Davis in household of Arthur Davis, "United States Census, 1900"

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