Albert Frederick Draves was born in January 1856, in Germany. He married Henrietta Johanna Venz on 15 September 1878, in Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Bassett, Chickasaw, Iowa, United States in 1915 and Chickasaw, Chickasaw, Iowa, United States in 1920. He died in 1922, at the age of 66, and was buried in Bassett, Chickasaw, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1860: Cherokee, Iowa, United States
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Americanized form of German Drewes .
English: variant of Drave, with post-medieval excrescent -s, a topographic name denoting someone who lived ‘(by the) drove’, a track along which livestock were driven, from Middle English drove, drave (Old English drāf ‘drove, cattle track’). This surname is now rare in Britain.
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