Brief Life History of Bertha Mae
When Bertha Mae Edwards was born on 19 December 1898, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Thomas Edwards, was 24 and her mother, Susie L Shirley, was 22. She married Paul S Boston on 1 January 1917. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She lived in Sulphur Well, Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Magisterial District 2 Sulphur Well, Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 26 November 1964, in Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Boston Cemetery, Calhoun, McLean, Kentucky, United States.
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- Bertha M Boston, "United States 1950 Census"
- Birtha M Edwards in household of John T Edwards, "United States Census, 1910"
- Bertha Edwards, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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1900 · Governor Shot
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
1906 · Gary, Indiana, Is Founded
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: variant of Edward , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: One of the earliest American bearers of this very common English surname was William Edwards, the son of Rev. Richard Edwards, a London clergyman in the age of Elizabeth I, who came to New England c. 1640. His descendant Jonathan (1703–58), of East Windsor, CT, was a prominent Congregational clergyman whose New England theology led to the first Great Awakening, a great religious revival.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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