Bertha Florence Beard

Brief Life History of Bertha Florence

When Bertha Florence Beard was born on 20 August 1882, in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, United States, her father, Lewis C Beard, was 34 and her mother, Susan Emma Harbaugh, was 26. She married Charles McComas Hebb in 1903, in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Halfway, Washington, Maryland, United States in 1930 and District 3, Washington, Maryland, United States in 1940. She died on 28 February 1960, in Boonsboro, Washington, Maryland, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Washington, Maryland, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles McComas Hebb
1884–1935
Bertha Florence Beard
1882–1960
Marriage: 1903
Chester Hebb
1914–1964

Sources (8)

  • Bertha Hebb in household of W Milton Porterfield, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Bertha F. Beard Hebb, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Bertha Beard in entry for Chester Irvin Hebb, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"

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World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1887

Historical Boundaries 1887: Washington, Maryland, United States

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

English:

nickname for a bearded man (from Middle English berd, Old English beard). To be clean-shaven was the norm in non-Jewish communities in northwestern Europe from the 12th to the 16th century, the crucial period for surname formation. There is a placename and other evidence to show that this word was used as a byname in the Old English period, when beards were the norm; in this period the byname would have referred to a large or noticeable beard. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, in particular German Barth 1.

habitational name from a place called Beard in Derbyshire (now represented by Beard Hall and Beardwood Farms in New Mills parish), which derives its name by dissimilation from Old English brerd ‘rim, bank’.

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

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