Dorothea was born in 1819, in Württemberg, Germany. She had at least 2 sons with William Schultz. She lived in New Haven, Shiawassee, Michigan, United States in 1880 and Greenfield, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1880. She died on 24 August 1888, in Owosso, Shiawassee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 69.
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form of a post-classical Greek name, from dōron ‘gift’ + theos ‘god’ (the same elements as in Theodora , but in reverse order). The masculine form Dorotheus was borne by several early Christian saints, the feminine by only two minor ones, but only the girl's name has survived. In modern use in the English-speaking world it represents either a 19th-century Latinization of Dorothy or a learned reborrowing.
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