Mamie Maude Kemper

Brief Life History of Mamie Maude

When Mamie Maude Kemper was born on 1 February 1895, in Malta Bend, Saline, Missouri, United States, her father, John Fredrick Kemper, was 24 and her mother, Jennie Belle Morton, was 24. She married Fredrich Bernard Cramer on 16 February 1916, in Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Cooper, Missouri, United States in 1935 and Clear Creek Township, Cooper, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 13 March 1966, at the age of 71, and was buried in Smithton, Pettis, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Fredrich Bernard Cramer
1891–1947
Mamie Maude Kemper
1895–1966
Marriage: 16 February 1916
Kalo B. Cramer
1916–1994
Owen Bernard Cramer
1921–2004

Sources (12)

  • Mamie Cramer in household of Fitz B Cramer, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Mamie Maude Kemper - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Mayme M. Kemper
  • Mamie Maude Kemper Cramer, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

Name Meaning

German: status name denoting a peasant farmer or serf, an agent noun derivative of Kamp 1.

North German: occupational name for an official calibrator who marked the correct weight and measures for verification, from Middle Low German kempen.

German and possibly also Dutch: habitational name for someone from any of the twelve places called Kempen in the Dutch-German border area.

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

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