When Pearl May Easter was born on 13 May 1896, in Boone, West Virginia, United States, her father, Joseph Henry Easter, was 36 and her mother, Martha Frances Hill, was 29. She married John J Rhodes on 7 August 1915, in Jackson, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Scott District, Boone, West Virginia, United States in 1910. She died on 21 January 1971, in Ripley, Jackson, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Ripley, Jackson, West Virginia, United States.
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English: from Middle English estre ‘sheepfold’ (Old English ēowestre). The surname may be topographic, denoting someone who lived by or worked at a sheepfold, or habitational, from Good or High Easter (Essex), named from this word.
English: from the Middle English word ester ‘easter’ (Old English Ēastre), used as a personal name for someone who had some connection with the festival of Easter, such as being born or baptized at that time. Compare Pascall .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Oster .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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