Florence Miller

Brief Life History of Florence

When Florence Miller was born on 11 December 1919, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Carl Mueller, was 38 and her mother, Anna Philippine Schmitt, was 33. She married Marcus David Nelson on 7 January 1938, in Bear Lake, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Election District 8, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States in 1940. She died on 9 April 1982, in Colorado, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins, Larimer, Colorado, United States.

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Family Time Line

Marcus David Nelson
1899–1981
Florence Miller
1919–1982
Marriage: 7 January 1938
James D. Nelson
1938–2018
Fred Stephen Nelson
1947–2024
Danny Frank Nelson
1951–2012

Sources (20)

  • Florence Nelson, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Florence Mueller, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1962"
  • Florence Nelson, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1921 · Flash floods kill 1500

On June 3 1921, flash floods in Pueblo cause over $20 million in damage and kill over 1,500 people in its wake.

1936 · Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

Built on property donated by the Broadmoor Art Academy, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center was built in April of 1936. This was in the middle of the ""Gret Deperession"" and Alice Bemis Tylor funded the project to help employ laborers who were unemployed.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The standard modern vocabulary word represents the northern Middle English term miller, an agent derivative of mille ‘mill’, reinforced by Old Norse mylnari (see Milner ). In southern, western, and central England Millward (literally, ‘mill keeper’) was the usual term. In North America, the surname Miller has absorbed many cognate surnames from other languages, for example German Müller (see Mueller ), Dutch Mulder and Molenaar , French Meunier , Italian Molinaro , Spanish Molinero , Hungarian Molnár (see Molnar ), Slovenian, Croatian, and Serbian Mlinar , Polish Młynarz or Młynarczyk (see Mlynarczyk ). Miller (including in the senses below) is the seventh most frequent surname in the US.

South German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Müller ‘miller’ (see Mueller ) and, in North America, also an altered form of this. This form of the surname is also found in other European countries, notably in Poland, Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), and Czechia; compare 3 below.

Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian Miler ‘miller’, a surname of German origin.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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