When Abraham Aughey "Alec" Guss was born on 15 February 1852, in Mifflintown, Juniata, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Uriah Guss, was 31 and his mother, Catharine Sieber, was 27. He married Sarah E Kearns in 1877, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Decatur Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Decatur, Decatur Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died on 8 August 1914, in Lewistown, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Lewistown, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English (Kent): from the Old Swedish personal name Guse, Gusse.
South German (Güss): topographic name for someone who lived near a torrent or on a flood plain, from Middle High German güsse ‘flood, flooding’. Compare Guess .
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