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