Elizabeth Jane Schwarz

Female1922–2 October 2008

Brief Life History of Elizabeth Jane

When Elizabeth Jane Schwarz was born in 1922, in Cass, North Dakota, United States, her father, Berthold Joseph Schwarz, was 35 and her mother, Laura Ellen Brown, was 30. She lived in Ransom, North Dakota, United States in 1935 and Fargo, Cass, North Dakota, United States in 1940. She died on 2 October 2008, at the age of 86, and was buried in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Otis Melvin Hansen
1924–2011
Elizabeth Jane Schwarz
1922–2008

Sources (6)

  • Elizabeth J Hansen, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Elizabeth Jane Schwarz, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
  • Betty J Schwarz, „United States Social Security Death Index“

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Age 1

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary

Age 12

Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963. 

1945 · Peace in a Post War World

Age 23

The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Otto, Erwin, Gunter, Heinz, Wolfgang, Gerhard, Manfred, Klaus, Bernhard, Ernst.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Schwartz . This surname is also found in Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, Croatia, and Slovenia, where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see 2 below) and where it was often applied as a translation into German of Slavic cognates like Czech and Slovak Černý (see Cerny 1), Slovenian Černe (see Cerne 1). It is also found in some western European countries, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and the Netherlands.

Germanized form of Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Švarc (see Swartz 2) and Polish Szwarc , surnames of German origin (see above).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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