When William Hudson Farmer was born on 7 February 1825, in Arkansas, United States, his father, Allen Farmer, was 16 and his mother, Mary Ann Grogan, was 20. He married Sarah Gunter on 11 November 1853, in Fannin, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 daughters. He lived in Fannin, Texas, United States in 1850 and Frio, Texas, United States in 1880. He died on 3 April 1902, in San Angelo, Tom Green, Texas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, San Angelo, Tom Green, Texas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1837: Fannin, Republic of Texas 1845: Fannin, Texas, United States
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English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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