Evelyn Sylvia Carmen

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, 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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Family Time Line

Ernest Richard Jensen
1914–1996
Evelyn Sylvia Carmen
1915–2003
Marriage: 25 September 1940
James Richard Jensen
1943–2015
Nathan Robert Jensen
1959–2006

Sources (42)

  • 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"

World Events (8)

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.

1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York

Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.

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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