Lillie Lavina Frankenfield

Brief Life History of Lillie Lavina

When Lillie Lavina Frankenfield was born on 20 October 1862, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Corp Allen Oliver Frankenfield, was 32 and her mother, Ellen Lydian Hoffert, was 24. She married George W. Bechtel about August 1879, in Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 25 June 1944, in Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

George W. Bechtel
1848–1911
Lillie Lavina Frankenfield
1862–1944
Marriage: about August 1879
Charles Christian Bechtel
1880–1931
Elmer Elsworth Bechtel
1884–1887
Gertrude Bechtel
1886–1887
Elizabeth A. Bechtel
1888–1954
George Harold Bechtel
1891–1966
Dorothy G Bechtel
1893–1968
Rodney Earl Bechtel
1899–1961

Sources (14)

  • Lillie Bechlal, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Lillie Frankenfield - Government record: birth-name: Lillie Frankenfield
  • Lillie Lavina Frankenfield Bechtel, "Find A Grave Index" [1944]

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Frankenfeld: habitational name from any of several places called Frankenfeld (literally, ‘Franconian field’) in central Germany and Bavaria. As a Jewish name, it is artificial.

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

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