Brief Life History of Alma Jane
When Alma Jane Lindermood was born on 30 November 1915, in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, United States, her father, Archie Lindamood, was 27 and her mother, Bertha May Lindawood, was 23. She had at least 1 daughter. She lived in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 10 January 2000, in West Virginia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, United States.
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- Alma Gander in household of Ray Watts, "United States Census, 1940"
- Alma Jane Gander, "Find A Grave Index"
- Alma Jane Lindemood Gander in entry for Ethel Lou St Clair, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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World Events (8)
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Relatively modern creation, of uncertain origin. It had a temporary vogue following the Battle of Alma ( 1854 ), which is named from the river in the Crimea by which it took place; similarly, Trafalgar had occasionally been used as a girl's name earlier in the 19th century. Nevertheless, the historical event seems only to have increased the popularity of an existing, if rare, name. Alma is also the feminine form of the Latin adjective almus ‘nourishing, kind’ (compare the term alma mater ‘fostering mother’, denoting an educational establishment). The name was borne by Alma Bennett ( 1889–1958 ), American vamp of the silent screen. In Tennessee Williams's play Summer and Smoke ( 1948 ), a bearer of the name explains that it is ‘Spanish for soul’, but this seems to be no more than coincidental.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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