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Author: bobboss55
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Trying to make sense out what I have on a great great grandmother. Her name was Sophia
Dorthea/Dorothea (maybe ZABLE / ZABEL. The name I think is correct, it's hard to tell
as I've seen it many different ways. On an application for a widows pension she listed
Doelitz Germany as her birthplace and Sepyember 24 / 25 as ner birthdate. She saig her
father4s name was Fred on another form. The question is that it appears that she was
married before she married my great great grandfather, John SOMMERVILLE, on October 12,
1860. In the Patterson/Pattison Family Association, they list her daughter, Augusta Louisa
ZABLE, as being married to Stanford Lindsay Patterson. They further state thst John
SOMMERVILLE was her step-father and that he married her moth, Sophia Dorthea ZABLE. One of
the question is if she was married before, what was her married name and wehat was her
maiden name? It is almost like ZABLE was her married name, although she lists her fathetr
as Fred ZABLE. On some do!
cuments her maifen name is listed as DOUGLAS. It is possible that her maiden name was
ZABLE/ZABEL and her first married name was DOUGLAS. Was it common that women would revert
to their maiden name after their husband died or divorced them in the 1850's? Her
daughter Augusta is said to be born in 1859, she immigrated from Prussia to the U.S. in
1858 so either she was married when she came or got married soon after arriving. Any
information on her would be very thanfully received.
Bob
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