When Sussana or Susanna Zeller was born on 28 March 1833, in Lanesville, Clark, Indiana, United States, her father, Joseph Zeller, was 36 and her mother, Gertrude Kunz, was 36. She lived in Harrison Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States in 1850. She died on 6 March 1852, in Lanesville, Clark, Indiana, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Saint Marys Catholic Cemetery, Lanesville, Franklin Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States.
German and Dutch: habitational name for someone from any of various places called Zelle or Celle (in particular Celle near Hanover), or named with German or Dutch Zelle ‘cell’ (for instance Appenzell, Switzerland), all derived ultimately from Latin cella ‘cell, small room’; or a topographic name from this word, denoting someone who lived near the site of a hermit's cell. This surname is also found in France (mainly Alsace, Lorraine, and Nord).
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from German Zelle ‘small workshop’ + the agent suffix -er for someone who owned or was employed at a Zelle. Among Jews it may also have been an adoption of the German surname.
Americanized form of Slovenian Zalar 1 or 2. Compare Zellar 2.
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