Brief Life History of Bessie Belle
When Bessie Belle Glass was born on 1 February 1875, in New York, United States, her father, William H. Glass, was 20 and her mother, Mary Strader, was 18. She married James Alma Cunningham about 1903, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. She died on 17 March 1966, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Bessie B Glass in household of Wm H Glass, "Minnesota State Census, 1885"
- Bessie Belle Henry, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Bessie B Cunningham, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1884
Rosedale Cemetery was founded in 1884.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
Name Meaning
English and German: metonymic occupational name for a glazier or glass blower, from Old English glæs ‘glass’, Middle High German glas. In English, the name may also derive from a nickname from Old French glas, clas ‘clash of arms, noise, tumult (of battle)’.
Irish (Ulster), Welsh, Cornish, and Scottish: from an Anglicized form of the epithet glas ‘slate colored, gray’, or any of various Gaelic surnames derived from it.
German: from an altered form of the personal name Klass, a shortened form of Nikolaus (see Nicholas ). This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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