Primary name: Yorke, Sybil

Also known as: Sybil Fuller; Sybil York

Filed under: Y

Research notes: Married name Fuller. Variants should redirect researchers here.

Sybil Yorke was born on April 9, 1910, in Hillsboro, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

She died on December 4, 1916 at age 6, and was buried in the Douglas Eagles Cemetery.

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Primary Name: Lena Wortman

Filed as: Wortman, Lena

Born: 1862

Died: 1918 (about age 55)

Burial: Douglas Eagles Cemetery, Douglas, Alaska

Spouse: Most likely married to Charles Wortman

Biography

Lena Wortman was born in 1862. She was most likely the wife of Charles Wortman. Lena died in 1918 at approximately 55 and was buried in the Douglas Eagles Cemetery.

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Von Dahlern, Otto

Died: November 1912, Tenakee, Alaska

Burial: Douglas Eagles Cemetery, Douglas, Alaska

Biography

Otto Von Dahlern was an early resident of Southeast Alaska during the territorial period.

He died in November 1912 in Tenakee, Alaska, a small community on Chichagof Island known during the early twentieth century for its fishing, mining, and trading activity.

Following his death, Von Dahlern was buried in the Douglas Eagles Cemetery in Douglas, Alaska. The cemetery served as a burial ground for many early residents of the Juneau–Douglas area and reflects the diverse population that lived and worked in the region during Alaska’s formative years.

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Primary Name: Varlijan, Frank

Filed as: Varlijan, Frank

Also known as: Frank Varlijan

Occupation / Association: Resident of Douglas, Alaska

Associated places: Douglas, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska; Austria

Keywords: Frank Varlijan, Varlijan family, Douglas Alaska residents, Douglas Eagles Cemetery burials, Juneau Douglas families, Austrian immigrants Alaska, early Douglas residents, Southeast Alaska families

Biography

Frank Varlijan was born on November 4, 1883, in Austria. Like many immigrants of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he eventually made his way to Alaska during the territorial period.

He lived in the Douglas–Juneau area of Southeast Alaska, a region closely connected with the mining and maritime economy surrounding Gastineau Channel.

Frank Varlijan died on August 6, 1948, at the age of sixty-four. He was buried in the Douglas Eagles Cemetery, one of the historic burial grounds associated with the community of Douglas.

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Primary Name: Stoft, John Wesley, Jr.

Filed as: Stoft, John Wesley, Jr.

Also known as: John Wesley Stoft Jr.

Occupation / Association: Child resident of Douglas, Alaska

Associated places: Douglas, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska; Douglas Eagles Cemetery

Keywords: John Wesley Stoft Jr., Stoft family Douglas Alaska, Douglas Eagles Cemetery burials, Douglas Alaska residents, early Douglas families, Juneau Douglas history, Southeast Alaska families

Biography

John Wesley Stoft, Jr. was born in 1907 and was a member of the Stoft family living in the Douglas–Juneau area of Southeast Alaska during the early twentieth century.

He died in 1913 at approximately five years of age. His burial took place in the Douglas Eagles Cemetery, one of the historic cemeteries associated with the community of Douglas, Alaska.

Records of his life and burial survive through genealogical and cemetery documentation relating to the early families of the Juneau–Douglas area.

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Stevenson, James

Born: 1884

Died: June 9, 1926 (age 42)

Place of death: Ketchikan, Alaska

Burial: Douglas Eagles Cemetery, Douglas, Alaska

Biography

James Stevenson was born in 1884 and lived during the period when Southeast Alaska’s coastal communities were developing alongside the region’s mining, fishing, and maritime industries.

Stevenson died in Ketchikan, Alaska, on June 9, 1926, at the age of 42.

He was buried in the Douglas Eagles Cemetery in Douglas, Alaska, one of the historic burial grounds serving the early residents of the Juneau–Douglas area during Alaska’s territorial period.

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Primary Name: Shudshift, Pearl

Filed as: Shudshift, Pearl

Also known as: Pearl Shudshift

Occupation / Association: Douglas, Alaska resident

Associated places: Douglas, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska

Keywords: Pearl Shudshift, Shudshift family Douglas Alaska, Arne Geirmmund Shudshift family, Douglas Eagles Cemetery, early Douglas Alaska families

Biography

Pearl Shudshift was born in 1917 and is believed to have been the daughter of Arne Geirmmund Shudshift and Ernne Geirmmund Shudshift.

She died in April 1926 at approximately eight years of age. Pearl Shudshift was buried in the Douglas Eagles Cemetery in Douglas, Alaska.

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Primary Name: Shudshift, Arne Geirmmund

Filed as: Shudshift, Arne Geirmmund

Also known as: Arne G. Shudshift

Occupation / Association: Early Alaska resident

Associated places: Norway; Douglas, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska

Keywords: Arne Geirmmund Shudshift, Arne G Shudshift, Enne Victoria Kronquist Shudshift, Pearl Shudshift, Douglas Eagles Cemetery, Douglas Alaska, pioneers, Norwegian immigrants Alaska

Biography

Arne Geirmund Shudshift was born April 2, 1894, in Norway.

He may have been the husband of Enne Victoria Kronquist Shudshift and the father of Pearl Shudshift.

Arne Shudshift died in May 1980 at the age of 86 and was buried in the Douglas Eagles Cemetery in Douglas, Alaska.

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Schramm, Emil

Born: September 22, 1892, Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington

Died: August 30, 1908, Douglas, Alaska

Burial: Douglas Eagles Cemetery, Douglas, Alaska

Biography

Emil Schramm was born on September 22, 1892, in Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington.

He later lived in the Juneau–Douglas area of Southeast Alaska during the territorial period.

Schramm died on August 30, 1908, in Douglas, Alaska, at the age of fifteen. He was buried in the Douglas Eagles Cemetery, one of the historic burial grounds associated with the early residents of the Douglas mining community.

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Primary Name: Schoppert, Mary

Filed as: Schoppert, Mary

Also known as: Mary Schoppert

Occupation / Association: Resident of Douglas, Alaska

Associated places: Douglas, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska; Douglas Eagles Cemetery

Keywords: Mary Schoppert, Schoppert family, Douglas Alaska residents, Douglas Eagles Cemetery burials, Juneau Douglas families, early Douglas residents, Southeast Alaska families

Biography

Mary Schoppert was born on October 5, 1915.

She lived in the Douglas–Juneau area of Southeast Alaska during the territorial and early statehood period.

Mary Schoppert died on November 29, 1957, at the age of forty-two. She is buried in the Douglas Eagles Cemetery, one of the historic burial grounds associated with the community of Douglas, Alaska.

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