Brief Life History of Helena “Lena”
When Helena “Lena” Winkler was born on 26 August 1861, in Zell, Zürich, Switzerland, her father, Hans Ulrich Winkler, was 22 and her mother, Anna Maria Thalmann, was 21. She married John Smith Jorgensen on 21 September 1882, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 3 October 1931, in Price, Carbon, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Castle Dale, Emery, Utah, United States.
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- Lena Winkle Jorgensen in household of John Smith Jorgensen, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Utah, Select Marriages, 1887-1966
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1877
Historical Boundaries: 1877: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1880: Emery, Utah Territory, United States 1894: Carbon, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Carbon, Utah, United States
1880
Historical Boundaries: 1880: Emery, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Emery, Utah, United States
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Klaus, Otto, Erwin, Hans, Gerhard, Heinz, Hermann, Fritz, Gernot, Helmut, Horst.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who kept a corner shop or one who farmed a corner of land, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a corner, in all these senses being an agent derivative of Winkel 1 ‘corner’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of corresponding Slavic topographic names or surnames.
Americanized or Germanized form of Czech, Hungarian, Slovenian, Slovak, and Croatian Vinkler , itself a Slavicized form of the German surname (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Ernest Floyd Jorgensen I, Ernest Floyd Jorgensen was born Jan. 3, 1901 at the Jorgensen farm about seven miles south east of Castle Dale. I was born in the log house that remains standing; the tenth …
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