When Stephen Decator Pepper was born on 22 June 1827, in Kirkmansville, Todd, Kentucky, United States, his father, Thomas Pepper, was 33 and his mother, Pamela Thomas Moore Pepper, was 26. He married Margaret M McFaddin on 1 November 1855, in Christian, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Christian, Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Wilson Magisterial District, Christian, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 21 January 1886, in Kirkmansville, Todd, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 58.
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English and North German: from Middle English peper, piper, Middle Low German peper ‘pepper’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a spicer; alternatively, it may be a nickname for a small man (as if the size of a peppercorn) or one with a fiery temper, or for a dark-haired man (from the color of a peppercorn) or anecdotal for someone who paid a peppercorn rent.
Irish: variant of Peppard .
Americanized form of Jewish Pfeffer , Feffer or Fefer, all meaning ‘pepper’.
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