When Sophia Pehl was born on 14 February 1837, in Holler, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, her father, Peter Pehl, was 28 and her mother, Gesina Magdalena "Helene" Stein, was 28. She married Alfred Frank Hunter on 31 December 1852, in Fredericksburg, Gillespie, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Gillespie, Texas, United States in 1870 and Weed, Otero, New Mexico, United States in 1900. She died on 4 June 1914, in Alamogordo, Otero, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Alamogordo, Otero, New Mexico, United States.
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German: either from an Old Prussian name of uncertain origin, or a shortened form of North German Pehlgrimm ‘pilgrim’ (from Latin peregrinus; German Pilger ), which was also used as a personal name.
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