Carl Kenney Harper

Brief Life History of Carl Kenney

When Carl Kenney Harper was born on 16 November 1924, his father, Oliver McKinley Harper, was 24 and his mother, Lela Jewell Goggins, was 19. He married Edith Faye Todd on 28 August 1943, in Election Precinct 29 Alabama City, Etowah, Alabama, United States. He died on 5 August 2003, at the age of 78, and was buried in Bear Creek Number One Cemetery, Bear Creek, Marion, Alabama, United States.

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Carl Kenney Harper
1924–2003
Betty Lou Austin
1928–
Marriage: 24 July 1946

Sources (15)

  • Carl Kenney Harper, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  • Carl K Harper, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • John Thomas in entry for Michael David Thomas and Regina Dawn Tolbert, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"

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World Events (8)

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1929

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

1945 · Peace in a Post War World

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

English (Staffordshire), Scottish, Irish (Antrim and Down), and Dutch: occupational name for a player on the harp, from Middle English harper(e) ‘harper’ (Old English hearpere) and Middle Dutch harper, herper. The harper was one of the most important figures of a medieval baronial hall, especially in Scotland and northern England, and the office of harper was sometimes hereditary. The Scottish surname is probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Chruiteir ‘son of the harper’ (from Gaelic cruit ‘harp’, ‘stringed instrument’). This surname has long been present in Ireland.

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

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