When Caroline Neff was born on 4 September 1854, in Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Christian Neff, was 36 and her mother, Ann Brenneman, was 32. She married William J Israel about 1875, in Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1910 and New York City, New York County, New York, United States in 1915. She died on 30 December 1916, in Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
German and Swiss German: relationship name from Middle High German neve ‘nephew’ (later rather broader in application, like cousin in English), hence probably a distinguishing name for a close relation or familiar of a prominent personage. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Naff .
Dutch: variant of Neve , cognate with 1 above.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Neffe ‘nephew’, cognate with 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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