When Catherine Walter was born on 6 March 1783, in Seven Fountains, Shenandoah, Virginia, United States, her father, Henry Walters, was 34 and her mother, Catharina Margretha Dull, was 33. She married Johann David Klemm Jr. on 24 April 1804, in Seven Fountains, Shenandoah, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Shenandoah Valley, Shenandoah, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Shenandoah, Virginia, United States in 1860. She died on 6 February 1863, in Seven Fountains, Shenandoah, Virginia, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Seven Fountains, Shenandoah, Virginia, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
English (of Norman origin), German, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, and Danish: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements wald ‘rule’ + heri, hari ‘army’. This personal name was introduced into England both in the reign of Edward the Confessor and by the Normans (in the forms Walt(i)er, Waut(i)er). After the Norman Conquest it soon became one of the most popular personal names in Britain. Compare Walther .
Germanized or Americanized form of Czech, Slovak, Croatian, and Slovenian Valter and Czech Valtr: from the personal name Valter, Valtr, of ancient Germanic origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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