Emma Bertha Bluemel

Brief Life History of Emma Bertha

When Emma Bertha Bluemel was born on 5 October 1862, in Janowitz, Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, Germany, her father, Ernest Wilhelm Bluemel, was 29 and her mother, Johanne Christiane Friedericke Adolph, was 29. She married James Marshall Conger on 29 November 1883, in Almy, Uinta, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 8 February 1949, in Venice, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Marshall Conger
1854–1930
Emma Bertha Bluemel
1862–1949
Marriage: 29 November 1883
William James Conger
1884–1967
Ethel May Conger
1886–1971
Anna Estella Conger
1889–1973
Nita Onida Conger
1890–1980
Afton Desmond Conger
1893–1955
Otto Alvord Conger
1900–1956

Sources (28)

  • Emma B Pendsey in household of James R Pendsey, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Blanche Emma Martin, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Emma B Bluewel, "Wyoming Marriages, 1869-1923"

World Events (8)

1864

War: Prussia and Austria vs. Denmark.

1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco

The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.

1890

Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hermann, Ralf.

South German (Blümel): from a diminutive of Middle High German bluome ‘flower’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a gardener or florist or, in some cases, possibly a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a flower. Compare Blumel .

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

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