When Samuel Elmer Parrish was born in 1853, in Smithboro, Tioga, Tioga, New York, United States, his father, Timothy Victor Parrish, was 25 and his mother, Ruth Ann Burnett, was 22. He married Henrietta Porter about 1879, in Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Forks Township, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Elkland Township, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States for about 50 years. In 1880, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as black smith in Elkland Township, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States. He died in July 1938, in Shunk, Fox Township, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in West Hills, East Franklin Township, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English (mainly southern): from the Old French habitational name and personal name Paris . Parrish is the most common form of the name in English, and is the result of confusion between -s and -sh (compare Norris ), reinforced by folk etymological association with the modern English word parish.
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