When Gustav Adolph Gohr was born on 4 October 1863, in West Prussia, Prussia, Germany, his father, Carl Gohr, was 48 and his mother, Anna Zutz, was 44. He married Mary Anna Krause in 1894. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Sultan, Snohomish, Washington, United States in 1930 and Winter Lake Election Precinct, Snohomish, Washington, United States in 1940. He died on 12 September 1948, in Monroe, Snohomish, Washington, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Sultan, Snohomish, Washington, United States.
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Historic Boundaries 1864: Snohomish, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Snohomish, Washington, United States
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German: topographic name for someone living near a bog, from Middle Low German gor ‘quagmire, bog’, or a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, such as Gohr near Neuss.
East German (of Slavic origin): topographic name from Polish or other Slavic gora ‘mountain’ or from the root gor- (ultimately from Old Slavic gorěti) ‘to burn’ (denoting cleared forest), elements contained in various field names and placenames.
Germanized form of Sorbian Gór: from a Lower Sorbian short form of the personal name Gorisław (from an Old Slavic name based on gorěti ‘to burn’) or Grogor (see Gregory ).
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