Brief Life History of Gertrude Anna
When Gertrude Anna Cornwell was born on 23 September 1911, in Fergus, Montana, United States, her father, Thomas Abraham Cornwell, was 22 and her mother, Effie Gertrude "Gertie" Cooper, was 18. She married John Richard Freeman Jr. in 1924. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Julien Township, Dubuque, Iowa, United States in 1940 and Grandy, Currituck, North Carolina, United States in 1990. She died on 27 July 1990, in Currituck, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Dubuque Memorial Gardens, Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa, United States.
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- Gertrude A Freeman, "United States 1950 Census"
- Gertrude Emmtz, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
- Gertrude Cornwell Freeman, "North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994"
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1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility
Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Cornwell in Oxfordshire, named from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’.
variant of Cornwall or Cornhill; in southeastern England mainly a habitational name from Cornhill in London but elsewhere alternatively from Cornhill (Northumberland) or one of the many minor places so called, often becoming Cornell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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