Clara E Schmoll

Brief Life History of Clara E

When Clara E Schmoll was born on 15 August 1885, in Minersville, Meigs, Ohio, United States, her father, John Schmoll, was 23 and her mother, Catharine Grueser, was 20. She married Wendel Schaefer on 6 November 1907, in Meigs, Ohio, United States. She lived in Syracuse, Sutton Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Sutton Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States in 1910. She died on 28 May 1962, in Meigs, Ohio, United States, at the age of 76.

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Wendel Schaefer
1883–1929
Clara E Schmoll
1885–1962
Marriage: 6 November 1907

Sources (6)

  • Clara E Schmall in household of John Schmall, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Clara Small, „Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016“
  • Clara Schaefer im Eintrag für Wendall Schaefer, „Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953“

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1886

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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

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1906 · Saving Food Labels

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Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Fritz, Gerhard, Helmuth, Kurt, Rudi.

South German: nickname for a fat person, from a dialect word meaning ‘lump of lard’. In eastern Germany, it could be a metonymic occupational name for a pitch boiler, from a Slavic word akin to Polish smoła ‘pitch’.

German: nickname from Middle High German smollen ‘to smile’, also ‘to pout’.

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

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