Brief Life History of Josephine M.
When Josephine M. Keith was born on 1 November 1898, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John William Keith, was 28 and her mother, Mae Esther Lockard, was 27. She married George Hess Woelpert on 4 January 1915, in Clark, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States in 1920 and Hardin, Kentucky, United States in 1930. She died on 2 October 1937, at the age of 38, and was buried in Elizabethtown City Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States.
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- Josephine Woelpert in household of Geo Woelpert, "United States Census, 1920"
- Josephine Woelpert, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Mrs. George Woelpert, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1900 · Governor Shot
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Keith in East Lothian. The placename is derived from British Celtic cait- ‘wood’. In the 17th century numerous bearers of this name settled in Ulster.
German: nickname from Middle High German kīt ‘sprout, offspring’.
History: George Keith (c. 1638–1716), born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, came to NJ in or before 1685. In 1689 he settled in Philadelphia, where he became headmaster of the school now called the William Penn Charter School. He came into sharp collision with the Quaker leaders in PA and formed a separatist party known as the Christian Quakers, popularly known as ‘Keithians’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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