Brief Life History of Bertha Ellen
When Bertha Ellen Kannard was born on 14 July 1883, in Kansas, United States, her father, Joseph A. Kannard, was 33 and her mother, Millie Susan Epperson, was 23. She married Edmund Walter Nantz on 12 November 1902, in Woodson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Woodson, Kansas, United States in 1895 and Perry Township, Woodson, Kansas, United States in 1915. She died on 31 October 1938, at the age of 55, and was buried in Village Creek Cemetery, Wilson, Kansas, United States.
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- Bertha Kannard in household of Jos Kannard, "Kansas State Census, 1895"
- Birtha E Nantz in household of Edwin W Nantz, "United States Census, 1910"
- Bertha Kennard, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
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1886
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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
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1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English (southern): nickname from Middle English cauenard, cainard, keynard ‘sluggard, lethargic person’ (probably a borrowing from an unrecorded Old French word; compare Modern French caignard ‘lazy’).
French: variant of Canard ‘duck’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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