Brief Life History of Evelyn Sylvia
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. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Bavaria, Germany in 2002 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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- Evlin S Carmen in household of John Willie Carmen, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Evelyn Jensen, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Evelyn Sylvia Carmen, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1916 · No-Ni-Shee Arch
The No-Ni-Shee Arch was a temporary archway near the intersection of Main Street and South Temple in downtown Salt Lake City. The archway was built in 1916 for the Wizard of the Wasatch festival. The name No-Ni-Shee was derived from a mythical American Indian Salt Princess. Her tears caused the Great Salt Lake to be salty. The arch was dedicated to her and sprayed with salt water so that salt eventually crystallized on Main Street. The Wizard’s carnivals enlivened Utah’s summers for several years. The last Wizard of the Wasatch carnival was held in 1916, on the eve of World War I.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
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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