When Elizabeth M Springfield was born on 18 May 1855, in Murray, Georgia, United States, her father, Hugh Springfield, was 34 and her mother, Anna Nix, was 32. She married James H Springfield on 2 March 1874, in Cooke, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Jefferson, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. She died on 8 September 1886, in Cooke, Texas, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Marysville Cemetery, Marysville, Cooke, Texas, United States.
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English:
habitational name from Springfield (Essex), from Old English spring ‘spring, well’ or possibly ‘young copse’, perhaps with the Old English groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + feld ‘open country’.
in northern England perhaps an altered form of Stringfellow .
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