Anna M. Thiel

15 February 1893–22 January 1969 (Age 75)
Cleghorn, Cherokee, Iowa, United States

The Life Summary of Anna M.

When Anna M. Thiel was born on 15 February 1893, in Cleghorn, Cherokee, Iowa, United States, her father, Mathias Thiel, was 38 and her mother, Ousia Flies, was 30. She married John F. Rassel on 18 January 1911, in Mary Hill, Cherokee, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Plano, Hanson, South Dakota, United States in 1930 and Fairview Township, Hanson, South Dakota, United States in 1940. She died on 22 January 1969, in Mitchell, Davison, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 75.

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Family Time Line

John F. Rassel
1881–1943
Anna M. Thiel
1893–1969
Marriage: 18 January 1911
Leona Maril Rassel
1911–1992
Luella Ann Rassel
1912–1973
John George Rassel
1914–1986
Marie C. Rassel
1916–1976
Frank Rassel
1918–1980
Lawrence Rassel
1920–1976
Lillian Agnes Rassel
1923–1984
Ann Louise Rassel
1925–1991
William Herman Rassel
1927–1996

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    18 January 1911Mary Hill, Cherokee, Iowa, United States
    • Children

    (9)

    +4 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (1)

    World Events (8)

    1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
    Age 3
    A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
    1898 · War with the Spanish
    Age 5
    After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
    1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
    Age 20
    The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

    Name Meaning

    Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Erwin, Egon, Franz, Reinhard, Wolfgang, Angelika, Arno, Bernhard.North German, Dutch, and Flemish: from a shortened form of the personal name Thietilo, an early medieval pet form of Dietrich (German), Diederik (Dutch), or from some other compound name with the same first element.Germanized form of Sorbian, Polish, and Czech Tyl , a name which is (at least in part) of the same German origin as 1 above.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Thielges
    Tiell
    Tilleman
    Thiele
    Tilkens
    Thielmann
    Thielke
    Dietrich
    Teel
    Thielen

    Sources (17)

    • Anna Thiel in entry for Lillian Agnes Rassel, "Iowa, Birth Records, 1921-1942"
    • Annie Rassell in household of John Rassell, "United States Census, 1920"
    • Anna Rassel in household of John F Rassel, "United States Census, 1930"

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