Brief Life History of Mabel
When Mabel Hoffstater was born on 9 September 1877, in Northfield, Rice, Minnesota, United States, her father, John W. Hoffstater, was 36 and her mother, Emma Leavitt, was 30. She married Fred Herbert Gaylord on 3 August 1897, in Trenton, Pierce, Wisconsin, United States. She died on 22 May 1899, in Cannon Falls, Goodhue, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Oak Lawn Cemetery, Northfield, Rice, Minnesota, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (6)
- Mabel Hoffstetter in household of John Hoffstetter, "Minnesota State Census, 1885"
- Mabel Hoffstaler, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- Maybell Hoffstatter Gaylord, "BillionGraves Index"
Spouse and Children
1877–1963 Male
1877–1899 Female
Parents and Siblings
1841–1920 Male
1847–1920 Female
Siblings (7)
1867–1948 Female
1867– Male
1869–1929 Male
1869–1978 Male
1871– Female
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 4
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
Age 5
1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota
Age 7
Name Meaning
Originally a nickname from the Old French vocabulary word amabel, amable ‘lovely’ (akin to modern English amiable ‘friendly, good-humoured’). The initial vowel began to be lost as early as the 12th century (the same woman is referred to as both Mabilia and Amabilia in a document of 1185 ), but a short vowel in the resulting first syllable was standard, giving a rhyme with babble, until the 19th century, when people began to pronounce the name to rhyme with table.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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