Brief Life History of Bertha Mae
When Bertha Mae Zacharias was born on 13 September 1883, in Millington, Tuscola, Michigan, United States, her father, Chancey Marion Zacharias, was 22 and her mother, Elizabeth A Hanlin, was 20. She married Ernest Rudolph Draper on 24 December 1902, in Cass, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Genesee, Genesee, Michigan, United States in 1920 and Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States for about 10 years. She died on 23 December 1947, in Genesee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Otter Lake, Lapeer, Michigan, United States.
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- Bertha Zacharias in household of Chancey Zacharias, "United States Census, 1900"
- Bertha May Zacchrius, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- Bertha M. Zacharias, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1887 · The Bagley Memorial Fountain
The Bagley Memorial Fountain was erected in 1887 with funds from the estate of John Judson Bagley. Bagley's will ordered the construction of the drinking fountain which would provide the people of Detroit "water cold and pure as the coldest mountain stream." H.H. Richards was the architect for the Romanesque-style, pink granite, lionhead fountain. It is engraved with the words, "TESTAMENTARY GIFT FOR THE PEOPLE FROM JOHN JUDSON BAGLEY A.D. MDCCCLXXXVII".
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Erwin, Gerhard, Erna, Hannes, Helmut, Irmgard, Kurt, Lothar, Nikolaus, Rudi, Wolfgang.
German, English, Greek, and Jewish; Czech (Zachariáš) and Slovak (Zachariaš and Zachariáš): from a Biblical personal name, Greek Zacharias, Aramaic and Hebrew Zekharya, composed of the elements zekhar ‘to remember’ + ya ‘God’. This name was borne by a Biblical prophet and in the New Testament by the father of John the Baptist, for which reason it achieved a modest popularity among Gentiles during the Middle Ages. As a surname in Britain, it originated mainly among Nonconformists in Wales and Cornwall in the 17th and 18th centuries. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Zaccaria , Polish Zachariasz, Slovenian Caharija, and their derivatives. The name Zacharias is also found among Christians in southern India (compare Cherian , Zacharia , and Zachariah ), but since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames, the southern Indian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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