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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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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