Walberdine Marie Miller

Brief Life History of Walberdine Marie

When Walberdine Marie Miller was born on 16 November 1901, in Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, her father, Gotleib Valentine Miller, was 25 and her mother, Mary Stumm, was 27. She married Dewey Poulsen on 12 October 1920, in Orange, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Judicial Township 15, Kern, California, United States in 1940 and Oildale, Kern, California, United States in 1950. She died on 4 March 1982, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Dewey Poulsen
1898–1995
Walberdine Marie Miller
1901–1982
Marriage: 12 October 1920
Loren Dewey Poulsen
1923–2006

Sources (16)

  • Wallie Poulsen, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Miller, "Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980"
  • Walberdine Miller, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"

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World Events (8)

1902 · So Much Farm Land

A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.

1906 · The End of Capital Punishment

Between the state's entry into the Union and 1906, 27 people were executed by hanging in Minnesota. Public opinion soon shifted against the death penalty in the state and was formally abolished in 1911. Since its abolishment, there have been 23 attempts to reinstate the death penalty, but none of these bills passed the state legislature.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The standard modern vocabulary word represents the northern Middle English term miller, an agent derivative of mille ‘mill’, reinforced by Old Norse mylnari (see Milner ). In southern, western, and central England Millward (literally, ‘mill keeper’) was the usual term. In North America, the surname Miller has absorbed many cognate surnames from other languages, for example German Müller (see Mueller ), Dutch Mulder and Molenaar , French Meunier , Italian Molinaro , Spanish Molinero , Hungarian Molnár (see Molnar ), Slovenian, Croatian, and Serbian Mlinar , Polish Młynarz or Młynarczyk (see Mlynarczyk ). Miller (including in the senses below) is the seventh most frequent surname in the US.

South German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Müller ‘miller’ (see Mueller ) and, in North America, also an altered form of this. This form of the surname is also found in other European countries, notably in Poland, Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), and Czechia; compare 3 below.

Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian Miler ‘miller’, a surname of German origin.

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

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