Brief Life History of Dorothy Althea
When Dorothy Althea Jensen was born on 11 August 1927, her father, Grant Lamont Jensen, was 22 and her mother, Leah Althea Watson, was 17. She died on 3 March 1930, at the age of 2, and was buried in Mountain Home, Elmore, Idaho, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- D Althea Jensen, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ancestry Family Trees
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1700s-Current
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1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Niels, Lars, Holger, Einer, Jorgen, Bent, Knud, Per, Ove, Morten.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Jens, a shortened form of Johannes (see John ). This is the most frequent surname in Denmark. In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Jenssen . Compare Jenson 2 and Johnson .
English: variant of Jennison .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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