Brief Life History of Bertha Frances
When Bertha Frances Zimmer was born on 14 January 1883, in Rhineland, Knox, Texas, United States, her father, Johann Zimmer, was 44 and her mother, Carolina Schmidt, was 39. She married Peter Herring on 23 January 1906, in Rhineland, Knox, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Knox, Texas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 4, Knox, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 21 September 1949, in Munday, Knox, Texas, United States, at the age of 66.
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- Bertha F Horning in household of Peter Horning, "United States Census, 1920"
- Bertha Zimmer, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Bertha Francis Herring, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1895
Historical Boundaries: 1895: Knox, Texas, United States
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful "oil boom".
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Erwin, Kurt, Franz, Fritz, Mathias, Otto, Bernhard, Dieter, Georg, Horst, Markus.
German: metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, either from Middle High German zim(b)er, zimmer ‘wood, wooden building’ or a shortening of Zimmermann .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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