When Mary Martha Bickel was born on 16 January 1911, in Danville, Montour, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Emory Oliver Bickel, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Gertrude Gass, was 28. She lived in Mifflinburg, Union, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Irvington Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States in 1940. She died on 11 April 1988, in Lewisburg, Union, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States.
Dutch and German: from bickel ‘pickaxe’ or ‘chisel’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made pickaxes or worked with a pickaxe or for a stonemason. Compare Bick .
German: nickname for a dice player, from the same word in the sense ‘die’.
South German: from a pet form of Burkhart .
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