Brief Life History of Ella May
When Ella May Shindledecker was born on 8 September 1899, in Orrtanna, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William Augustus Shindledecker, was 43 and her mother, Margaret Hannah Deardorff, was 27. She married Samuel Clayton Fissel on 26 July 1916, in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Franklin Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 14 August 1969, in Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Ella M Fissel in household of Samuel C Fissel, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ella May Shindledecker - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Ella May Shindledecker
- Ella May Shindledecker Fissel, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Schindeldecker, an occupational name for a roofer, composed of Middle High German schindel ‘shingle, wooden tile’ + an agent derivative of decken ‘to cover (a building), to roof’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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