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Author: bobboss55
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Trying to find out about an gggranmother. Wasn't sure of name at first. Saw a marriage
notice for a known daughter of hers. The notice said the daughter of John SOMMERVILLE and
Dora Sophia ZOBLER. The notices was for their daughter in Nebraska. On all the census
forms that sow her as Sophia SOMMERVILLE (all the different spellings of the last name).
Now I have seen references to John SOMMERVILLE married to a Sophia ZABEL. The first place
I have seen her is in the 1865 Minnisota Territory and state census, all it shows is she
is John's wife and mother to 5 children, no doubt some from John's first wife. The
1870 federal census shows them still in Bergen, McLeod, Minnesota . She is shown with more
children an is listed as 33 years old. That would put her birth about 1847 in Prussia.
So, the question is, what is her real name?
Bob
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