Brief Life History of Rena V
When Rena V Burkhart was born on 1 November 1891, in Hamburg, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Allen Grant Burkhart, was 23 and her mother, Catharine S Hoffman, was 21. She married William Elton Herber on 20 March 1913, in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Perry Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Windsor Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 7 June 1978, in Hamburg, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Hamburg, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Rena Burkhart in household of Caraline Burkhart, "United States Census, 1900"
- Rena V. Burkhart Herber, "Find A Grave Index"
- Renna V Burkhart Herber in entry for Wayne A Herber, "Pennsylvania Obituaries, 1977-2010"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1905 · The Movie Theater
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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Name Meaning
German: from the medieval personal name Burkhard, from ancient Germanic Burghard, composed of the elements burg ‘fort, castle’ + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’. This form of the surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and in Czechia (compare 2 below), but it is very rare there. Compare also Borgardt , Brookhart , Burgert , Burghart , Burkart , and Burkett .
Germanized form of Polish and Czech Burkert , Czech Purkert or Purkart, and Slovenian Purkart: from a German variant and Slavicized forms of the medieval German personal name Burkhard (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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