Mamie Annie Clemens Moyer

Brief Life History of Mamie Annie Clemens

When Mamie Annie Clemens Moyer was born on 19 April 1894, in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Henry Landis Moyer, was 38 and her mother, Emma Bergey Clemens, was 35. She had at least 1 daughter with Frank Godshall Sell. She lived in Franconia Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years. She died on 6 October 1934, in Souderton, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Souderton, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Frank Godshall Sell
1887–1970
Mamie Annie Clemens Moyer
1894–1934
Mildred Moyer Sell
1934–1999

Sources (8)

  • Mamie C Sell in household of Frank G Sell, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Massima Annie Moyer, "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"
  • Mamie A. Moyer Sell, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

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.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1905 · The Movie Theater

The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in. 

Name Meaning

Americanized form of German Meyer or Mayer .

French: status name for a sharecropper, from an angent derivative of Old French moie ‘half’.

In some cases also an Americanized form of Dutch Mooijer: surname associated with Maaijer, an occupational name for a mower or reaper (see Maier ). However, almost all bearers come from Volendam (North Holland), where the surname originated as Pooijer, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman (peurder) or a nickname for someone carrying a ponjaard ‘dagger’. The surname was changed to Mooijer due to the connotation with Dutch pooier ‘bully, fancy-man’.

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

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