When Delila Poole was born on 1 July 1824, in Elk Creek, Grayson, Virginia, United States, her father, Jonathan Harris Pool, was 28 and her mother, Anna Betsy Cannoy, was 22. She married Elisha Brewer on 2 March 1843, in Grayson, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Oldtown, Grayson, Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 10 May 1907, at the age of 82, and was buried in Providence, Grayson, Virginia, United States.
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English: from Middle English pol(e), polle, poul(e) ‘pool, pond’ (Old English pōl). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by a pool, or habitative, from a place so named.
English: variant of Paul .
Possibly an Americanized form of German Puhl or Pfuhl(e) (see Pool 4).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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