When Dorothea Kunegunda Jacobs was born on 3 November 1848, in Bavaria, Germany, her father, Heinrich Jacobs, was 32 and her mother, Margaret Bolen, was 29. She married Heinrich Frederick Wilhelm Moellering on 2 April 1865, in LaSalle, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in LaSalle, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Peru, LaSalle, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 19 April 1907, at the age of 58, and was buried in Peru City Cemetery, Peru, LaSalle, Illinois, United States.
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Dutch, Flemish, German, English, and Jewish: patronymic from the personal name Jacob , ‘Jacob's (son)’, with genitival (or, as an English name, post-medieval excrescent) -s. This surname is also found in France (Nord, Alsace, and Lorraine). As a Jewish surname it has absorbed various other Jewish patronymics from the same personal name, as for example Jacobowitz , and in North America also cognates from other languages, for example Slovenian Jakopič (patronymic from an old variant of the personal name Jakob ).
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