When Raymond Fred Messmer was born on 16 December 1890, in Richmond, Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States, his father, Joseph Messmer, was 43 and his mother, Kunda Gunda Bolter, was 39. He married Margaretha Eilerman on 29 May 1918, in Wayne, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Wayne, Wayne, Nebraska, United States in 1930 and Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died on 3 December 1978, at the age of 87, and was buried in Richmond, Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States.
German (Alemannic and Swabian): variant of Messner , the alteration being by analogy with surnames in -mer borrowed from placenames in -heim ‘homestead’.
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