When John Jay Sutphin was born on 29 September 1885, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, his father, Benjamin Elliott Sutphin, was 32 and his mother, Anothy Obediance Frances Prather, was 37. He married Louisa E. Kemp on 4 February 1909, in Carroll, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Blacksburg District, Montgomery, Virginia, United States in 1940 and Bellefonte, Nottoway, Virginia, United States in 1950. He died on 10 April 1956, in Blackstone, Nottoway, Virginia, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Grace Cemetery, Wilsons, Dinwiddie, Virginia, United States.
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Americanized form of Dutch Van Zutphen: habitational name for someone from Zutphen in the province of Gelderland. Compare Sutfin and Sutphen .
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