Brief Life History of Dorothea Mable
When Dorothea Mable Burkholder was born on 6 December 1919, in Keeline, Niobrara, Wyoming, United States, her father, Lewis Clyde Burkholder, was 40 and her mother, Luvena Elizabeth Barr, was 37. She lived in Lusk, Niobrara, Wyoming, United States in 1930. She died on 30 December 1935, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 16, and was buried in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (4)
- Dorotha Bunkholder in household of Louis C Bunkholder, "United States Census, 1920"
- Dorothea M Burkholder, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
- Dorthy M Burkholder in household of Harold W Burkholder Sr., "United States Census, 1930"
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World Events (7)
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1920
Women got to vote first time in the state of Wyoming.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
German: altered form of Swiss German Burkhalter . The surname Burkholder is rare in Germany.
History: This is the most common form of the name of a Swiss Mennonite and Amish family, originally spelled Burkhalter , but in Germany (and in the US) altered to Burkholder and Borkholder .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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