Josephine Margaret Karmann

Brief Life History of Josephine Margaret

When Josephine Margaret Karmann was born on 19 March 1895, in Ontario, Canada, her father, Mathais Karmann, was 39 and her mother, Mary, was 36. She married Jesse Charles Bell on 29 December 1909, in Albert Rural Municipality, Manitoba, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Colton, Whitman, Washington, United States in 1920 and Lind, Adams, Washington, United States in 1930. She died on 15 September 1985, in Coupeville, Island, Washington, United States, at the age of 90.

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Family Time Line

Jesse Charles Bell
1882–1961
Josephine Margaret Karmann
1895–1985
Marriage: 29 December 1909
Achsa Josephine Bell
1912–
Marian Caroline Bell
1914–
Everet Roy Bell
1915–2005
Charles Ewen Bell
1918–
Wray K. Bell
1920–1996
Frank Russell Bell
1921–1984
Jean Inez Bell
1925–2019
Gerald Amos Bell
1927–2016

Sources (4)

  • Josephine M Bell in household of Jess C Bell, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Josephine Karman in household of Mathew Karman, "Canada Census, 1901"
  • Margaret Josephine Bell in household of Jesse Charles Bell, "United States Census, 1920"

World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario

Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

Name Meaning

North German: occupational name for a carter, Middle Low German karman. Compare Karman .

South German: from Middle High German kar ‘container, bowl, grain measure’ + man ‘man’, hence an occupational name for a maker of such utensils.

South German (Tyrolean): topographic name for someone who lived in a kar, a bowl-shaped valley bottom.

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

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