When Joseph Samuel Espey was born on 13 January 1803, in Lincoln, North Carolina, United States, his father, Captain Samuel Espey, was 44 and his mother, Elizabeth Sloan, was 43. He married Margaret Duff in 1823, in Kings Mountain, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States. He lived in Floyd, Georgia, United States in 1860 and District 923, Floyd, Georgia, United States in 1870. He died on 26 November 1875, in Georgia, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Fouche, Floyd, Georgia, United States.
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Scottish (Northumberland): variant of Espy .
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a stretch of water or marsh edged by aspen trees, from Middle High German, Middle Low German espe ‘aspen’ + -ey, a suffix denoting the presence of water.
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