Louise J Barth Shoemaker

Brief Life History of Louise J

When Louise J Barth Shoemaker was born on 4 June 1890, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Wilhelm A Barth, was 35 and her mother, Elise Louisa Fredericka Runge, was 27. She married Henry Guy Shoemaker on 26 September 1912, in Paulding, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Crane Township, Paulding, Ohio, United States in 1920 and Brady Township, Williams, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. She died on 12 August 1962, in West Unity, Williams, Ohio, United States, at the age of 72.

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Family Time Line

Henry Guy Shoemaker
1890–1961
Louise J Barth Shoemaker
1890–1962
Marriage: 26 September 1912
La Fern Alta Shoemaker
1912–2004
Deloris Pauline Shoemaker
1913–2003
Robert D Shoemaker
1915–1974
Thelma Gertrude Shoemaker McCreery
1917–2002
Ruth Marie Shoemaker
1924–2017

Sources (20)

  • Louise Shoemaker in household of Guy H Shoemaker, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Louise Barth Shoemaker, "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940"
  • Louisa Barth, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"

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Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Hans, Kurt, Franz, Erwin, Florian, Gerhard, Gunther, Klaus, Manfred, Armin, Arno.

German and Swiss German: nickname for a bearded man, from Middle High German bart ‘beard’. This name, which can not be always distinguished from 2 and 4 below, is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Slovenia, in the last four countries sometimes as a German translation of Slavic surnames meaning ‘beard’ or ‘bearded man’ (see Bart 1). See also Beard 1.

German: habitational name from a place so named in Pomerania.

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

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