Brief Life History of Clara Leora
When Clara Leora Decker was born on 14 June 1885, in Blue Rapids, Marshall, Kansas, United States, her father, Zachariah Taylor Decker, was 36 and her mother, Anna Eliza Owen, was 36. She had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with John H Sherwin. She lived in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1930 and Supervisorial District 2, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1940.
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Sources (6)
- Clara Stephenson in household of R D Stephenson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Decker in entry for Paul Alton Sherwin, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
- Clara L Stephenson in household of Robert D Stephenson, "United States Census, 1940"
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1886
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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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Name Meaning
German: occupational name for a roofer (thatcher, tiler, slater, or shingler) or a carpenter or builder, from an agent derivative of Middle High German decke ‘covering’, a word which was normally used to refer to roofs, but sometimes also to other sorts of covering; modern German Decke still has the twin senses ‘ceiling’ and ‘blanket’.
Dutch: variant of Dekker , cognate with 1 above. Compare De Decker .
English (London): variant of Dicker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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