When Georgia Alice Cleaver was born on 18 March 1864, in Iowa, United States, her father, George C Cleaver, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Catherine Rutledge, was 22. She married William Grant Pruitt on 25 December 1885, in Page, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Atchison Township, Nodaway, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Hopkins, Nodaway, Missouri, United States in 1930. She died on 5 May 1935, at the age of 71, and was buried in Clearmont, Nodaway, Missouri, United States.
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English (South Midlands and Oxfordshire): from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’ (a derivative of Old English clēofan ‘to split’), hence an occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher. Alternatively, on occasion possibly a topographic name from Middle English cleve ‘bank, slope’ (from the dative of Old English clif) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.
Americanized form of German and Dutch Klever , and perhaps also of German Kliewer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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