Sophia Elias de Wilde-Snuijf was the sister of Judith Snuijf. She was the second of the eight children of Elias Snuijf and Eva Cats. Sophia was good with her hands and worked at a needlework shop. She took dancing lessons, where she met Abraham de Wilde. The couple married in 1903.
Sophia Snuijf was rather a nervous, anxious housewife. One of her grandchildren remembers that she was always saying …