When Carrie Bell Workman was born on 3 September 1860, in Eddyville, Wapello, Iowa, United States, her father, Benjamin M. or J. Workman, was 25 and her mother, Mary Ann True, was 22. She married Aaron Oscar Mc Dowell on 14 September 1878, in Eddyville, Wapello, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Washington Township, Keokuk, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Garfield Township, Mahaska, Iowa, United States in 1910. She died on 27 February 1919, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Chariton Cemetery, Chariton, Lucas, Iowa, United States.
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English (Gloucestershire): ostensibly an occupational name for a laborer, from Middle English werkman ‘laborer, craftsman’, also ‘customary tenant’ (Old English weorcmann). A customary tenant was a person allowed to hold land in exchange for carrying out a certain service.
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