When Calvin A. Gant was born on 16 July 1801, in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, United States, his father, Tyre Gant, was 32 and his mother, Susannah Lindy Pratt, was 25. He married Matilda Hackleman on 9 February 1823, in Rushville, Rush, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Metamora, Metamora Township, Franklin, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Wayne Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States in 1860. He died on 16 May 1884, in Huntington, Indiana, United States, at the age of 82.
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English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Ghent in Flanders, Belgium.
English: from Middle English gaunt, gant ‘slim, slender; drawn, thin and angular’.
North German: probably a variant of Gans ‘goose’.
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