When Evelyn Sylvia Carmen was born on 16 February 1915, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, John Willie Carmen, was 29 and her mother, Amelia Cherrington, was 31. She married Ernest Richard Jensen on 25 September 1940, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in United States in 1949 and Byron, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States in 2002. In 1940, at the age of 25, her occupation is listed as file clerk - telephone company in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She died on 15 January 2003, in Glendale, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Byron, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States.
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Spanish: from a short form of the Marian name María del Carmen ‘Mary of Carmel’, a reference to Mount Carmel (meaning ‘garden’ or ‘orchard’) in the Holy Land, which is mentioned in the Bible (1 Kings 18:19; see Carmelo ) and was populated from early Christian times by hermits. Compare Del Carmen .
Spanish: habitational name from any of various places in Spain named El Carmen, for example in the province of Cuenca.
English: variant of Carman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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