When Clara Elizabeth Dockstader was born on 8 July 1857, in Montgomery, New York, United States, her father, Henry Dockstader, was 40 and her mother, Gertrude Maria Caldwell, was 30. She lived in Mohawk, Montgomery, New York, United States in 1892 and Oneida, New York, United States in 1920. She died on 15 June 1931, in Utica, Oneida, New York, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fonda, Mohawk, Montgomery, New York, United States.
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German: topographic name for someone who lived by a landing, from Middle Low German docke ‘dock’ + stade ‘embankment, shore’, + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. In some cases it may have been an occupational name for a docker, since stade also denoted a granary or warehouse. This surname has apparently died out in Germany. Compare Doxtater and Doxtator .
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