When Sophia Zimmer was born on 20 April 1861, in Saint Agatha, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, her father, Henricus Zimmer, was 26 and her mother, Catherine Dorschel, was 20. She married Albert J. Ruppert on 13 August 1883. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 31 August 1918, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in United German and French Cemetery, Cheektowaga, Erie, New York, United States.
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German: metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, either from Middle High German zim(b)er, zimmer ‘wood, wooden building’ or a shortening of Zimmermann .
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