Nephi Henry Duersch

Brief Life History of Nephi Henry

When Nephi Henry Duersch was born on 1 January 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Fredrick Duersch, was 29 and his mother, Lena Aeschbacher, was 26. He married Bertha Raisch on 11 January 1949, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He immigrated to World in 1940 and lived in Alta, Teton, Wyoming, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 July 1974, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Providence, Cache, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Nephi Henry Duersch
1916–1974
Bertha Raisch
1913–1988
Marriage: 11 January 1949
Annamaria Duersch
1951–2002

Sources (33)

  • N Henry Duersch, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Nephi Henry Duersch, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
  • Nephi Henry Duersch, "Wyoming, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"

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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.

1916 · The Logan Library

The Logan Library was created to serve the fifty thousand citizens of Logan with the access of over two hundred thousand items for children, teens, students, and adults to check out and learn from. The library also provides several programs that are popular with the community. The library moved to its current location in 2009 and reached a milestone in items checked out in 2012, at over 1 million.

1932

Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Dietrich, Eckhart, Erwin, Ilse, Jurgen.

Germanized form of Sorbian Derž: from a short form of the Old Sorbian personal names Deržisław and Deržimir, based on Old Slavic dьržati ‘to hold’.

South German: nickname for a foolish person, from Middle High German tœrsch ‘foolish’.

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

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Most of this article surrounds Henry's mission. Henry was a cousin of Arnold Durtschi and they were in the same ward and saw a lot of each other when they were kids. Arnold was a year younger t …

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