Brief Life History of Joseph Edward
When Joseph Edward Schingler was born on 12 November 1877, in Eagle Lake, Colorado, Texas, United States, his father, Maximo Schindler, was 29 and his mother, Maria Josephine Willberg, was 20. He married Rosetta Estella Greathouse on 3 July 1900, in Colorado, Texas, United States. He lived in Justice Precinct 6, Colorado, Texas, United States in 1900 and Jefferson, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 16 June 1949, in Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, United States.
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- Joe E Shingler, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Schindler - Government record: birth-name: Joseph Schindler
- J E Schindler, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
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1881 · Construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Kurt, Otto, Guenter, Reinhardt, Frieda, Horst, Rainer, Bernhard, Florian, Fritz, Gerd.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who made or laid wooden roof tiles, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schindel, German Schindel ‘shingle’.
South German: habitational name for someone from any of the places called Schindel or Schindeln (see Schindel ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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