Brief Life History of Charles Wilmeth
When Charles Wilmeth Hand was born on 22 April 1908, in Judicial Township 3, Kern, California, United States, his father, Charles Wilmeth Hand, was 29 and his mother, Florence Ellen Watenpaugh, was 22. He married Annabelle Doris Stevens on 28 May 1927, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Kern, California, United States in 1920 and Cedar Falls Township, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States in 1950. He died on 27 October 1993, in Fruita, Gunnison, Colorado, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Salida, Chaffee, Colorado, United States.
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- Charles Hand, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Charles Wilmeth Hand - Memory of Someone: birth: 22 April 1908; Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States
- Charles Wilmeth Hand, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
1910 · Angel Island Serves Immigrants
Angel Island served as a western entry point for hundreds of thousands of U.S. immigrants, mainly from China, from 1910 to 1940.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
English, German, and Dutch: nickname for someone with a peculiarity or deformity of the hand or perhaps to skill in its use, from Middle English hond(e), hand(e), Middle High German hant, found in such appellations as Johan metter hant (Rijkhoven 1284), Liebhard mit der Hand (Augsburg 1383).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German Hand ‘hand’ (see 1 above).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fhlaithimh (see Guthrie ), as a result of association with the Gaelic word lámh ‘hand’. It is used as an English equivalent for several other names of Gaelic origin too, such as Claffey , Glavin , and McClave .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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