Alpha Pepper's Birth Certificate
Also known as Alpha Pepper, short for Alphabet Pepper, Anna Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez jane Kate Louise Maude Nora Ophelia Prudence Quince Rebecca Sarah Teresa Ulysis Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetty Zeno Pepper was born to Aruthur Pepper and Sarah Jane in West Derby, Lancashire, in the first quarter of 1883. Her name occupying three lines of the index. Other sources have her birth on December 19 of 1882 in Liverpool, Lancashire. Her father, a laundry man at the time of her birth, is recorded as a cab driver, and widower in 1901. In 1908 he left Alpha with 95 pounds. Alpha would go on to marry Arthur Von Der Donk Wait, a man of Dutch decent in the United States in 1910. Her son, Gale Pepper Wait, was born 9 years latter. By 1943 she was going by the name Nan Pepper Wait and had a US Social Security number. She passed away under the name Nan Wait in 1945 and was burried in Sparkill, Rockland County, New York, United States of America. Her long birth name is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records.