Brief Life History of Lydia A
When Lydia A Wolff was born on 4 July 1885, in Webster, Day, South Dakota, United States, her father, August Franz Wolff, was 36 and her mother, Johanna Petznick, was 35. She married Stanley Abner Knapp on 10 March 1909, in Racine Township, Day, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Morton Township, Day, South Dakota, United States in 1900 and Marshall, South Dakota, United States in 1910. She died on 25 January 1923, in Webster, Day, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Webster, Day, South Dakota, United States.
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- Lydia Wolf in household of Johannah Wolf, "United States Census, 1900"
- Lydia A Wolff Knapp, "Find A Grave Index"
- Lydia Wolfe Knapp in entry for Mabel Kotzea, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1886
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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Kurt, Otto, Erwin, Fritz, Helmut, Franz, Gerhard, Guenter, Gunter, Heinz, Klaus.
German, Danish, English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Wolf .
Germanized or Americanized form of various other surnames meaning ‘wolf’, e.g. Hungarian Farkas , Czech and Slovak Vlk , Slovenian and other Slavic Volk , Vovk , and Vuk (see Wolf ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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