When Clara J. Peebler was born on 14 September 1853, in West Point Township, Butler, Iowa, United States, her father, Sanford Lewis Peebler, was 24 and her mother, Nancy Jane McKibben, was 23. She married Charles Beckley Rowlands on 6 April 1879, in Mahaska, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Monroe Township, Mahaska, Iowa, United States in 1900 and White Oak Township, Mahaska, Iowa, United States for about 20 years. She died on 7 January 1944, in Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Forest Cemetery, Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa, United States.
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Probably an Americanized form of German Biebler:
from an ancient Germanic personal name formed with a cognate of Old High German bītan ‘to endure’ + berht ‘shining, famous’.
topographic name contained in the placename Biebelried in Bavaria and others.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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