Brief Life History of Edith Melida
When Edith Melida Hering was born on 9 November 1919, in Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Harry Herman Hering, was 22 and her mother, Grace Elizabeth Meckley, was 16. She married Clyde Bryant Shoemaker in 1939. She lived in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1935 and Montgomery, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. She died on 27 April 1999, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Muncy, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Sources (4)
- Melida Herring in household of Harry Herring, "United States Census, 1930"
- Edith Hering Shoemaker, "Find A Grave Index"
- Edith M Herring in household of Harry H Herring, "United States Census, 1940"
Spouse and Children
1920–1996 Male
1919–1999 Female
Parents and Siblings
1897–1967 Male
1903–1950 Female
Siblings (4)
1917–1985 Male
1918–2009 Male
1919–1999 Female
1922–1993 Male
World Events (8)
1920
Age 1
1920
Age 1
1941
Age 22
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Hasso, Alfons, Alois, Arno, Ernst, Erwin, Florian, Gerhard, Guenther, Kurt, Ludwig, Manfred.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German hærinc ‘herring’, German Hering, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman, particularly a seller of herrings, or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a herring. In some cases the Jewish surname is artificial. In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the German and Jewish variant Häring. Compare Haring .
German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places and farmhouses so named, for instance near Zeesse in Overijssel, originally inhabited by a certain Here or Hero and his kin. Here or Hero is a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name with the element heri ‘army’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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