When John H Pickel was born on 2 August 1824, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, his father, Jonathan Pickel, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Virginia Cunningham, was 28. He married Sarah S Winton on 14 August 1845, in Meigs, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Civil District 1, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Denver, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States in 1880. He died on 24 November 1896, in Boulder, Colorado, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Columbia Cemetery, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States.
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South German: metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used pickaxes or a nickname for a gambler; a variant of Bickel .
Dutch: from Middle Dutch pickel ‘leg’, hence a nickname for someone with long or otherwise remarkable legs, or a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter.
Americanized or Germanized form of Slovenian Pikelj, Pikel, or Pikl: from pikelj, a word of South German origin (see above and Bickel ), denoting a kind of pick used by miners.
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