1940 U.S. Federal Census of West Lancaster, Keokuk, Iowa
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A Surnames
Aller | Alberta | born about 1920 |
Aller | Audray | born about 1913 |
Aller | Corra | born about 1885 |
Aller | Eldora | born about 1925 |
Aller | Joe | born about 1873 |
Anderson | Donna | born about 1932 |
Anderson | Elaine | born about 1925 |
Anderson | James | born about 1937 |
Anderson | John | born about 1904 |
Anderson | Mildred | born about 1904 |
Anderson | Richard | born about 1928 |
Anderson | Wanda | born about 1934 |
Andeway | Clarence | born about 1904 |
Andeway | Donna | born about 1934 |
Andeway | Judith Ann | born about 1939 |
Andeway | Leonard | born about 1930 |
Andeway | Mildred | born about 1932 |
Andeway | Ruth | born about 1911 |
Appleget | Charles | born about 1924 |
Appleget | Ethel M | born about 1896 |
Appleget | Laurena | born about 1926 |
Appleget | Myra | born about 1932 |
Appleget | Richard | born about 1921 |
Appleget | Viola | born about 1929 |
Appleget | William | born about 1895 |
Appleget | Wilmer | born about 1923 |
Applegett | Esther | born about 1870 |
Applegett | J W | born about 1870 |
Archer | Henry | born about 1891 |
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B Surnames
Bakehouse | Henry | born about 1883 |
Bakehouse | Joe | born about 1900 |
Beall | Alta | born about 1890 |
Beall | Charley | born about 1872 |
Beall | Iona | born about 1928 |
Beall | Ira R | born about 1887 |
Beall | June | born about 1923 |
Beall | Millie | born about 1892 |
Beasley | Della R | born about 1876 |
Beasley | Dwight | born about 1915 |
Beasley | Edna | born about 1885 |
Beasley | Elsie May | born about 1886 |
Beasley | Gerald F | born about 1919 |
Beasley | Homer | born about 1880 |
Beasley | Jesse | born about 1884 |
Beasley | Lila Virginia | born about 1923 |
Beasley | R C | born about 1885 |
Beasley | Roy O | born about 1918 |
Beasley | Shirley Irene | born about 1939 |
Beasley | Wanda | born about 1918 |
Behnamann | Carrie M | born about 1898 |
Behnamann | Fern B | born about 1925 |
Behnamann | Fred D | born about 1894 |
Bell | Fred | born about 1898 |
Bensmiller | Carolyn Ann | born about 1937 |
Bensmiller | Frank I | born about 1907 |
Bensmiller | Leland Earl | born about 1925 |
Bensmiller | Lillie F | born about 1892 |
Bensmiller | Lloyd D | born about 1922 |
Bensmiller | Viola | born about 1909 |
Borough | Bartholomew | born about 1937 |
Borough | Joe | born about 1880 |
Borough | Kathleen L | born about 1929 |
Borough | Winnie | born about 1900 |
Bottger | Edna | born about 1904 |
Bottger | Gerald | born about 1901 |
Bottger | Geraldine | born about 1924 |
Bottger | James Gilbert | born about 1927 |
Bottger | John | born about 1939 |
Bottger | Neal | born about 1932 |
Bottger | Rex | born about 1935 |
Brown | S T | born about 1859 |
Bruns | A W | born about 1900 |
Bruns | Alice | born about 1910 |
Bruns | Alvina | born about 1889 |
Bruns | Bernadeen | born about 1914 |
Bruns | Clara | born about 1889 |
Bruns | Donna Jean | born about 1937 |
Bruns | E H | born about 1892 |
Bruns | Fred J | born about 1886 |
Bruns | George D | born about 1886 |
Bruns | Harold E | born about 1917 |
Bruns | Jean | born about 1916 |
Bruns | John Wayne | born about 1938 |
Bruns | Leo A | born about 1912 |
Bruns | Lola | born about 1901 |
Bruns | Malcolm E | born about 1915 |
Bruns | Marjorie Kay | born about 1939 |
Bruns | Myron George | born about 1936 |
Buehneman | Carroll | born about 1929 |
Buehneman | Hazel | born about 1896 |
Buehneman | Louis | born about 1891 |
Buehneman | Norman | born about 1927 |
Buehneman | Veris | born about 1925 |
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C Surnames
Carson | Elzora | born about 1871 |
Carson | Fawn | born about 1897 |
Carson | Jesse D | born about 1859 |
Carson | Wilbert | born about 1893 |
Chase | Francis | born about 1870 |
Chilton | Allen Ralph | born about 1909 |
Chilton | Michael | born about 1938 |
Chilton | Patricia | born about 1939 |
Chilton | Verna | born about 1911 |
Coble | Kenneth | born about 1912 |
Coble | Kenneth Ronald | born about 1940 |
Coble | Nancy Lee | born about 1938 |
Coble | Ruth | born about 1919 |
Colbert | Dale | born about 1919 |
Conner | Darlene | born about 1928 |
Conner | Darrell | born about 1933 |
Conner | Ellis | born about 1903 |
Conner | Harry | born about 1894 |
Conner | Janette | born about 1866 |
Conner | Minnie | born about 1862 |
Conner | Ola | born about 1904 |
Cook | Carol | born about 1924 |
Cook | Clarice | born about 1922 |
Cook | Frederick | born about 1929 |
Cook | J Wilmer | born about 1926 |
Cook | John W | born about 1884 |
Cook | Pearl | born about 1897 |
Crabb | Samantha A | born about 1855 |
Crampton | Dolores | born about 1932 |
Crampton | Minnie | born about 1893 |
Crampton | W H | born about 1884 |
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D Surnames
Davis | Elmer | born about 1866 |
Davis | Etta | born about 1870 |
Davis | Walter | born about 1883 |
Downey | Gladys | born about 1912 |
Downey | Judith Ann | born about 1939 |
Downey | Sedrick O | born about 1907 |
Dumont | Fann | born about 1919 |
Dumont | Lyle Wilford | born about 1939 |
Dumont | Wilford | born about 1914 |
Dunkrigger | Merle | born about 1918 |
Duree | Kate | born about 1859 |
Duree | Ralph L | born about 1889 |
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E Surnames
Elder | Albert | born about 1885 |
Elder | Evelyn | born about 1928 |
Elder | Kenneth | born about 1926 |
Elder | Lizzie | born about 1887 |
Elder | Loyd | born about 1915 |
Elder | Ralph | born about 1920 |
Elder | Richard | born about 1932 |
Elmore | Carole | born about 1939 |
Elmore | David | born about 1935 |
Elmore | Gladys | born about 1916 |
Elmore | Kenneth | born about 1915 |
Engle | Albert | born about 1924 |
Engle | Leroy | born about 1921 |
Engle | Minnie | born about 1890 |
Engle | Myrtle | born about 1922 |
Ewald | G E | born about 1876 |
Ewald | Nellie | born about 1882 |
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F Surnames
Fischer | Alda | born about 1879 |
Fischer | Bert | born about 1879 |
Fischer | Ruth | born about 1912 |
Flanegan | Dean | born about 1920 |
Flanegan | Ethel | born about 1883 |
Flanegan | Richard | born about 1918 |
Flanegan | S B | born about 1872 |
Flanegan | Ward | born about 1910 |
G Surnames
Gaylord | Nancy L | born about 1870 |
Gaylord | W H | born about 1864 |
Giffen | Mary | born about 1866 |
Gilliland | Bonnie Joan | born about 1938 |
Gilliland | Donald Eugene | born about |
Gilliland | Florence | born about 1876 |
Gilliland | Grace | born about 1915 |
Gilliland | Harry | born about 1886 |
Gilliland | Helen | born about 1915 |
Gilliland | Holland | born about 1910 |
Gilliland | Hubert | born about 1915 |
Gilliland | Hubert Gary | born about 1939 |
Gilliland | May | born about 1882 |
Gilliland | Nora | born about 1886 |
Goeldner | Ruth C | born about 1916 |
Goodwin | Clara | born about 1860 |
Griffin | Martha | born about 1855 |
Gritchen | Clifford | born about 1918 |
Gritchen | Hildreth | born about 1920 |
Gritchen | Howard | born about 1892 |
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H Surnames
Hahn | A J | born about 1901 |
Hahn | Errol | born about 1934 |
Hahn | Frances | born about 1907 |
Hahn | Lloyd | born about 1928 |
Hahn | Robert | born about 1932 |
Hardesty | Faye | born about 1896 |
Hardesty | Gertie | born about 1880 |
Hardesty | Leonard | born about 1885 |
Hardesty | Melva | born about 1859 |
Hardesty | Migmon | born about 1922 |
Harmon | A C | born about 1864 |
Harmon | John | born about 1893 |
Harris | Duaine | born about 1933 |
Harris | George S | born about 1890 |
Harris | Ida K | born about 1895 |
Harris | Lois | born about 1931 |
Harris | Mourse | born about 1922 |
Harris | Tressie | born about 1925 |
Hart | A D | born about 1881 |
Hart | Virgie | born about 1886 |
Hayes | Bess | born about 1924 |
Hayes | Bruce | born about 1928 |
Hayes | Charles | born about 1872 |
Hayes | Don | born about 1895 |
Hayes | Ella | born about 1868 |
Hayes | Ethel | born about 1902 |
Hayes | Fay Elvira | born about 1914 |
Hayes | Gertrude | born about 1876 |
Hayes | Harvey | born about 1940 |
Hayes | Jean | born about 1922 |
Hayes | Lacy | born about 1902 |
Hayes | Mary Dolores | born about 1933 |
Hayes | Mary Ellen | born about 1867 |
Hayes | Merle | born about 1897 |
Hayes | Myrtle | born about 1903 |
Hayes | Nelle | born about 1933 |
Hayes | Wade | born about 1931 |
Heisdorffer | Edna May | born about 1920 |
Heisdorffer | Leo | born about 1910 |
Heisdorffer | Margaret | born about 1882 |
Heisdorffer | Peter | born about 1879 |
Heisdorffer | Ruth | born about 1911 |
Henson | Minnie | born about 1919 |
Henson | Rabecca | born about 1868 |
Henson | Roger | born about 1909 |
Henson | Waldo | born about 1907 |
Henson | William | born about 1862 |
Herman | Betty | born about 1919 |
Herman | Elvin E | born about 1921 |
Herman | Ernest A | born about 1913 |
Herman | John L | born about 1878 |
Herman | Mattie E | born about 1887 |
Hermanson | A H | born about 1889 |
Hermanson | Mary | born about 1889 |
Herrell | Cora | born about 1870 |
Herrman | Edward | born about 1877 |
Hollingsworth | Edna | born about 1890 |
Hollingsworth | Ira | born about 1880 |
Hollingsworth | Leonard | born about 1921 |
Hollingsworth | Myrtle | born about 1878 |
Hollingsworth | Ora | born about 1889 |
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I Surnames
Ireland | Jennie | born about 1879 |
Ireland | W L | born about 1874 |
Ireland | Willis | born about 1915 |
J Surnames
Jacobs | Almyra | born about 1882 |
Jacobs | Calvin | born about 1923 |
Jacobs | Claude | born about 1879 |
Jacobs | Eloise | born about 1906 |
Jacobs | Lee | born about 1884 |
Jacobs | Lena M | born about 1902 |
Jacobs | Lillie | born about 1873 |
Jacobs | Lydia | born about 1850 |
Jacobs | Lydia | born about 1875 |
Jacobs | Olive | born about 1880 |
Jacobs | Orval | born about 1873 |
Jacobs | P H | born about 1852 |
Jacobs | Richard | born about 1882 |
Jacobs | Wm A | born about 1907 |
Jones | Francis M | born about 1920 |
Jones | Harold L | born about 1916 |
Jones | Ida May | born about 1875 |
Jones | Julia F | born about 1879 |
Jones | Wilson | born about 1878 |
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K Surnames
Keasling | Jacob A | born about 1865 |
Kelley | John | born about 1882 |
Kensler | Maxon | born about 1875 |
Kleinschmidt | Dick | born about 1887 |
Kleinschmidt | Dwight | born about 1924 |
Kleinschmidt | Eveyln | born about 1919 |
Kleinschmidt | Goldie H | born about 1896 |
Knott | Dorthy | born about 1924 |
Knott | Edith Francis | born about 1902 |
Knott | Letty Jean | born about 1926 |
Knott | Ramond Dale | born about 1933 |
Knott | Rosco | born about 1898 |
Knott | Vera | born about 1923 |
Kracht | Dean Russell | born about 1923 |
Kracht | Dora | born about 1897 |
Kracht | Emil | born about 1884 |
Kracht | Leroy Harold | born about 1926 |
Krier | Carroll David | born about 1933 |
Krier | Earl Laur?nce | born about 1931 |
Krier | Erma | born about 1903 |
Krier | Glen Dean | born about 1928 |
Krier | Jake | born about 1896 |
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L Surnames
Laux | Helen J | born about 1864 |
Laux | J J | born about 1861 |
Linder | Bert | born about 1893 |
Linder | Dean | born about 1917 |
Linder | Ella | born about 1885 |
Linder | Margaret | born about 1928 |
Long | Carlyle | born about 1910 |
Long | Dale | born about 1937 |
Long | Earrol C | born about 1905 |
Long | Gerald | born about 1915 |
Long | Larry | born about 1939 |
Long | Lillian | born about 1915 |
Long | Lydia | born about 1888 |
Long | Marjorie | born about 1914 |
Long | Mary A | born about 1909 |
Long | Minnie | born about 1885 |
Long | Ruth | born about 1922 |
Long | W F | born about 1869 |
Longhridge | Alta | born about 1903 |
Longhridge | Charles A | born about 1923 |
Longhridge | John A | born about 1897 |
Longhridge | Lela Darlene | born about 1928 |
Longhridge | Phyllis Jean | born about 1927 |
Lowe | Bernard | born about 1923 |
Lowe | Bert | born about 1920 |
Lowe | Doris | born about 1925 |
Lowe | Eva Marie | born about 1934 |
Lowe | Ilene | born about 1929 |
Lowe | Jack | born about 1937 |
Lowe | Jean | born about 1932 |
Lowe | On | born about 1939 |
Lowe | Sophia L | born about 1896 |
Lowe | T C | born about 1885 |
Lowe | Vernalda | born about 1927 |
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M Surnames
Martin | Alice Jean | born about 1939 |
Martin | Alma | born about 1881 |
Martin | Bernice | born about 1910 |
Martin | Charles Sf | born about 1934 |
Martin | Elizabeth | born about 1876 |
Martin | Elizabeth | born about 1877 |
Martin | Ernest L | born about 1902 |
Martin | Gerald E | born about 1936 |
Martin | Patricia Ann | born about 1938 |
Martin | R L | born about 1903 |
Martin | Thelma | born about 1914 |
Martin | William | born about 1897 |
Martin | William F | born about 1881 |
McCullough | A C | born about 1900 |
McCullough | Betty Down | born about 1926 |
McCullough | Frank | born about 1871 |
McCullough | Pearl | born about 1905 |
McIntosh | Ella M | born about 1885 |
McIntosh | Ralph E | born about 1922 |
McIntosh | Roy R | born about 1882 |
McKeag | Bill | born about 1882 |
Melcum | Louie E | born about 1878 |
Melcum | W C | born about 1869 |
Melrose | Gene | born about 1925 |
Melrose | Lucile | born about 1904 |
Mertz | Clea O | born about 1908 |
Mertz | Cleopha J | born about 1908 |
Mertz | Elmer H | born about 1902 |
Mertz | Jacob | born about 1881 |
Mertz | Juanita | born about 1906 |
Mertz | Lea Ann | born about 1938 |
Mertz | Leroy B | born about 1904 |
Mertz | Mariam R | born about 1936 |
Mertz | Mary E | born about 1882 |
Mertz | Ruth E | born about 1909 |
Mertz | William Leroy | born about 1939 |
Middleton | Ila B | born about 1911 |
Miller | Harlan B | born about 1914 |
Miller | Luclle | born about 1912 |
Miller | Wayne | born about 1927 |
Millkin | Gladys | born about 1908 |
Mills | Leonard | born about 1908 |
Morlan | Dorthy | born about 1914 |
Morlan | Kenneth J | born about 1939 |
Morlan | Lorance | born about 1908 |
Morlan | Phylis Joan | born about 1933 |
Morrow | Fred | born about 1900 |
Morrow | Loretta | born about 1927 |
Morrow | Mary | born about 1891 |
Morrow | Maxine | born about 1924 |
Morrow | Sam | born about 1889 |
Morrow | Sylvia | born about 1901 |
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P Surnames
Parcel | Cecil | born about 1906 |
Parcel | Duane | born about 1929 |
Parcel | Gladys | born about 1907 |
Parcel | Nadine | born about 1931 |
Pitsch | John L | born about 1900 |
Pitsch | Joseph J | born about 1936 |
Pitsch | Lucina | born about 1915 |
Pitsch | Robert | born about 1939 |
Prather | Ella | born about 1885 |
Prather | Harold | born about 1918 |
Prather | Helen M | born about 1913 |
Prather | Joe | born about 1882 |
Prather | Ramond | born about 1910 |
Puder | Pearl | born about 1892 |
Puder | Rolla | born about 1891 |
Puder | Virginia | born about 1925 |
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R Surnames
Raben | Stella F | born about 1890 |
Raben | W A | born about 1888 |
Raben | Waldo | born about 1911 |
Randall | Alonzo F | born about 1891 |
Randall | W C | born about 1879 |
Ray | John E | born about 1864 |
Reynolds | A S | born about 1879 |
Reynolds | Clarence B B | born about 1893 |
Reynolds | Emeline | born about 1879 |
Reynolds | Ethel P | born about 1899 |
Reynolds | L B | born about 1885 |
Reynolds | Pansy | born about 1885 |
Reynolds | Richard | born about 1915 |
Richards | Orville | born about 1907 |
Richardson | George | born about 1848 |
Richardson | Lucia | born about 1878 |
Rogers | Adelia | born about 1869 |
Rohloff | Donald | born about 1919 |
Rohloff | Doris | born about 1918 |
Ruby | Rilla | born about 1876 |
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S Surnames
Sainer | Fanny | born about 1879 |
Sainer | Henry | born about 1860 |
Sainer | Newton | born about 1920 |
Sauer | Doyle | born about 1924 |
Sauer | Minnie | born about 1883 |
Sauer | Ruth | born about 1915 |
Schultheise | Claudine | born about 1926 |
Schultheise | Gustave | born about 1897 |
Schultheise | Ileen | born about 1925 |
Schultheise | John William | born about 1934 |
Schultheise | Martha Pearl | born about 1897 |
Schultheise | Shirley | born about 1929 |
Seebers | Jean | born about 1930 |
Short | Edna | born about 1894 |
Short | Fred | born about 1891 |
Short | Garold | born about 1916 |
Short | Helen Jean | born about 1929 |
Short | Ivan | born about 1923 |
Short | Rosemond | born about 1926 |
Singleton | Mary | born about 1864 |
Slayton | Jeanetta Lee | born about 1937 |
Slayton | Louise | born about 1916 |
Smith | Ethel | born about 1889 |
Smith | Raymon | born about 1887 |
Stanfield | John | born about 1882 |
Stein | Claborn | born about 1919 |
Stein | John | born about 1894 |
Stein | Myrtle | born about 1896 |
Stein | Virginia | born about 1924 |
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T Surnames
Tremmel | Beatrice | born about 1922 |
Tremmel | Bernard | born about 1930 |
Tremmel | Lena | born about 1888 |
Tremmel | William | born about 1887 |
Tygart | Charley | born about 1888 |
Tygart | Leonard | born about 1924 |
Tygart | Lula | born about 1895 |
Tygart | Raymond | born about 1919 |
Tygart | Tom | born about 1880 |
U Surnames
Ulin | Albert E | born about 1938 |
Ulin | Dean G | born about 1924 |
Ulin | Dwight | born about 1907 |
Ulin | Ethel L | born about 1886 |
Ulin | J W | born about 1884 |
Ulin | Jeanette E | born about 1938 |
Ulin | Leroy S | born about 1911 |
Ulin | Levi C | born about 1883 |
Ulin | Lydia | born about 1887 |
Ulin | Nancy J | born about 1936 |
Ulin | Nettie M | born about 1914 |
Ulin | Nina | born about 1890 |
Ulin | Ruby | born about 1911 |
Ulin | Shirley Grace | born about 1940 |
Ulin | Thurman G | born about 1888 |
Utterbach | Allie V | born about 1872 |
Utterbach | Alta W | born about 1918 |
Utterbach | Florence M | born about 1877 |
Utterbach | S Curtis | born about 1875 |
Utterbach | Shirley Darlene | born about 1939 |
Utterbach | W E | born about 1876 |
Utterbach | Walter O | born about 1910 |
Utterback | A L | born about 1871 |
Utterback | Adelia | born about 1901 |
Utterback | Alma | born about 1936 |
Utterback | Betty E | born about 1929 |
Utterback | Blanche | born about 1910 |
Utterback | Chester H | born about 1895 |
Utterback | Chill | born about 1878 |
Utterback | Dean I | born about 1925 |
Utterback | Doris | born about 1900 |
Utterback | Lois | born about 1933 |
Utterback | Lora | born about 1920 |
Utterback | Louise | born about 1923 |
Utterback | Lula | born about 1885 |
Utterback | Margareite | born about 1877 |
Utterback | Martha E | born about 1891 |
Utterback | Merrill | born about 1896 |
Utterback | Myrtle | born about 1880 |
Utterback | Rex | born about 1902 |
Utterback | Rose | born about 1939 |
Utterback | Ruby | born about 1891 |
Utterback | T D O | born about 1876 |
Utterback | Verle | born about 1905 |
Utterback | Vern | born about 1872 |
Utterback | Willard | born about 1917 |
Utterback | Woodrow | born about 1913 |
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V Surnames
Vanness | Charles | born about 1937 |
Vanness | Lucille | born about 1933 |
Vanness | Mable | born about 1913 |
Vanness | Raymond | born about 1906 |
Vanness | Wauneta | born about 1932 |
W Surnames
Waller | Glow | born about 1919 |
Waller | Myrna | born about 1940 |
Waller | Wilford | born about 1911 |
Wallerich | Josia | born about 1883 |
Wallerich | N H | born about 1881 |
Wilkening | Belva Joy | born about 1925 |
Wilkening | Bessie | born about 1891 |
Wilkening | Bessie Jean | born about 1924 |
Wilkening | Clyde | born about 1932 |
Wilkening | Dale | born about 1910 |
Wilkening | F W | born about 1879 |
Wilkening | Florence | born about 1880 |
Wilkening | Frances | born about 1919 |
Wilkening | George E | born about 1881 |
Wilkening | Henrietta | born about 1929 |
Wilkening | Henry | born about 1892 |
Wilkening | John F | born about 1917 |
Wilkening | Leslie | born about 1921 |
Wilkening | Margaret L | born about 1909 |
Wilkening | Ozetta | born about 1888 |
Wilkening | R D | born about 1906 |
Wilkening | Rex | born about 1916 |
Wilkening | W H | born about 1883 |
Wilkening | William C | born about 1936 |
William | John S | born about 1881 |
William | Louise | born about 1887 |
William | Milfred E | born about 1924 |
William | Ottilie | born about 1922 |
Wiseman | Adam W | born about 1883 |
Wiseman | Dora M | born about 1890 |
Wiseman | Frances O | born about 1917 |
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Y Surnames
Yahn | Ellsworth | born about 1909 |
Yahn | Emma | born about 1885 |
Yahn | Francis Marie | born about 1923 |
Yahn | Harold | born about 1918 |
Yahn | Henry | born about 1870 |
Yahn | Herman | born about 1911 |
Yahn | Mildred | born about 1926 |
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