When Bessie May Poorman was born on 1 April 1886, in Swatara, Derry Township, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Barnhart Poorman, was 37 and her mother, Sarah Jane Keenley, was 29. She married John D. Conrad on 27 February 1905, in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. She died on 29 October 1942, in Londonderry Township, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Hillsdale Cemetery, Middletown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States.
Possibly an altered form of German Purrmann, from a variant of the personal name Burgman, from Old High German burg ‘castle, protection’ + man ‘man’.
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