Amanda Yellis Kern

Brief Life History of Amanda Yellis

When Amanda Yellis Kern was born on 31 March 1848, in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Samuel Kern, was 44 and her mother, Catherine Yellis, was 40. She married William Eisenberg Fry in 1867, in Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1900 and Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. She died on 13 June 1931, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Quakertown, Richland Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Eisenberg Fry
1854–1917
Amanda Yellis Kern
1848–1931
Marriage: 1867
Harry K Fry
1880–1880
Orrin Kern Fry Sr.
1881–1968
Maurice H Fry
1883–1883
Lillian Kern Fry
1885–1960
George Russell Fry
1889–1896

Sources (37)

  • Ellannanda Kern in household of Samuel Kerm, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Amanda Yellis Kern Fry, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Amanda Y. in entry for Fry, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Births, 1860-1906"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

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.

Name Meaning

German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German kerne ‘kernel, seed, pip’; Middle Dutch kern(e), keerne; German Kern or Yiddish kern ‘grain’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a farmer, or a nickname for a physically small person. As a Jewish surname, it is mainly artificial.

English (southeastern): metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of milk churns, from Middle English kern, kirn, kurn, a side-form of chern ‘churn’. Compare Church .

Slovenian: nickname for a stunted person, from an old spelling of krn ‘stunted’.

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

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