Margaret Evelyn Gorman

Female22 April 1897–2 March 1978

Brief Life History of Margaret Evelyn

Margaret Evelyn Gorman was born on 22 April 1897, in Larimore, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. She married Maurice Sidney Heyerdahl Herum on 24 August 1929, in Cass, North Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Driscoll, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States in 1930 and Douglas, Ward, North Dakota, United States in 1940. She died on 2 March 1978, in Fargo, Cass, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Fargo, Cass, North Dakota, United States.

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Family Time Line

Maurice Sidney Heyerdahl Herum
1898–1951
Margaret Evelyn Gorman
1897–1978
Marriage: 24 August 1929
John Maurice Herum
1931–2012
Mary Therese Herum
1934–1975
Evelyn Louise Herum
1936–2013

Sources (4)

  • Margaret E Herum in household of Maruice S Herum, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Evelyn Herum, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Evelyn Herum in household of Maurice Herum, "United States Census, 1940"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    24 August 1929Cass, North Dakota, United States
  • Children (3)

    World Events (8)

    1898 · War with the Spanish

    Age 1

    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.

    1903

    Age 6

    Historical Boundaries: 1903: Ward, North Dakota, United States

    1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

    Age 22

    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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.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

    Irish (Munster): from Mac Gormáin and Ó Gormáin ‘son (or descendant) of Gormán’, a personal name from a diminutive of gorm ‘dark blue, noble’.

    Americanized form of German Görmann: variant of Germann .

    Americanized form of German Görmann: of Slavic origin, an occupational name for a miner, from Slavic gora ‘mountain’ + Middle High German man ‘man’.

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

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