When Geneva Estella Knapp was born on 8 January 1861, in Marion, Illinois, United States, her father, William J. Knapp, was 30 and her mother, Adeline Melvina Dorris, was 22. She married Casper Lee Thiell on 19 June 1881, in Patoka, Marion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Capital Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Washington Township, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1920. She died on 14 January 1923, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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German: occupational or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant, apprentice’, and ‘miner’. This surname is also found elsewhere in central Europe, e.g. in Czechia and Slovakia, where it is more commonly spelled Knap (compare 3 below).
German: in Franconia, a nickname for a dexterous or skillful person, of the same ultimate origin as 1 above.
Germanized or Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Slovak, Rusyn, and Slovenian Knap , a surname of ultimately German origin (see 1 above).
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