When Adah Soper was born in 1861, in Iowa, United States, her father, Timothy Soper, was 41 and her mother, Adelia Maria Starkweather, was 26. She married George Francis Bodenhoffer on 29 April 1886, in Anamosa, Jones, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Fairview Township, Jones, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Fairview, Jones, Iowa, United States in 1880. She died on 13 May 1935, in Anamosa, Jones, Iowa, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Anamosa, Jones, Iowa, United States.
English (Devon): occupational name from Middle English soper(e), sap(i)ere ‘soaper, maker or seller of soap’ (Old English sāpere, apparently of Celtic origin). The process involved boiling oil or fat together with potash or soda.
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