When Roswell Culver was born on 8 December 1773, in Columbia, New York, United States, his father, Benjamin Culver, was 26 and his mother, Tamar Brown, was 25. He married Lydia Hatch in 1793, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Dover Township, Athens, Ohio, United States in 1815 and Athens, Athens, Ohio, United States in 1830. He died in 1830, in Rome Township, Athens, Ohio, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Broadwell Cemetery, Broadwell, Athens, Ohio, United States.
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English (Kent): from Middle English culver, colver ‘dove’ (Old English culfre, Late Latin columbula, a diminutive of columba), which Reaney suggests was used as a term of endearment. It may therefore have been applied as nickname for a lovelorn youth or perhaps for someone who used the expression indiscriminately. Otherwise, it may have been a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of doves or a nickname for someone bearing some fancied resemblance to a dove, such as mildness of temper.
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