Brief Life History of Edwin Russell
When Edwin Russell Packard was born on 27 April 1870, in Pennington, Bradley, Arkansas, United States, his father, Erastus Eugenius Packard, was 21 and his mother, Mary Jane Bond, was 33. He married Mamie Traweek in 1893, in Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Pennington Township, Bradley, Arkansas, United States in 1900. He died on 24 October 1912, in Warren, Bradley, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Warren, Bradley, Arkansas, United States.
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- Russell Packard, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Edwin Russell Packard - Published information: birth-name: Edwin Russell Packard
- E R Packard, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
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Name Meaning
English: from Middle English pak(e) ‘pack, bundle’ + the Anglo-Norman French pejorative suffix -ard, probably a derogatory occupational name for a peddler.
English: pejorative derivative of the Middle English personal name Pack .
Probably also an Americanized form of German Packert, Päckert, from ancient Germanic personal names formed with a word meaning ‘battle’ or ‘to fight’; or a variant of Packer 2 (with excrescent -t).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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