When Daniel Whitaker was born on 6 June 1796, in Woodford, Kentucky, United States, his father, John J Whitaker, was 35 and his mother, Martha Wilcockson, was 40. He married Nancy Sebastian on 19 November 1820, in Fayetteville, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died on 9 September 1881, in Union City, Obion, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Salem Cemetery, Obion, Tennessee, United States.
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English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Whitacre in Warwickshire or High Whitaker in Lancashire, both of whose names derive from Old English hwīt ‘white’ + æcer ‘field’. The name may also be derived from Wheatacre in Norfolk or Whiteacre in Waltham (Kent), both of which derive from Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + æcer ‘field’. Compare Whittaker .
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