Josephine Pauline Myers

Female23 September 1896–12 December 1960

Brief Life History of Josephine Pauline

When Josephine Pauline Myers was born on 23 September 1896, in Maryland, United States, her father, Luther Roger Myers, was 44 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Harper, was 40. She lived in Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States in 1910 and Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States in 1950. She died on 12 December 1960, in Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States.

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John Bratton Sanford
1893–1964
Josephine Pauline Myers
1896–1960

Sources (6)

  • Josephine P Sanford, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Josephine Pauline Myers Sanford, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Josie Meyers in household of Sarrah Meyers, "United States Census, 1910"

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World Events (8)

1898 · War with the Spanish

Age 2

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

Age 4

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment

Age 17

The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

Name Meaning

Irish (Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’.

English (northern): variant of Myer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) in the plural form, such as Melmerby Mire in Melmerby, or Mires in Docker (both Cumbria).

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

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