When Hannah Wood Southwick was born on 18 October 1842, in Groton, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Isaac David Southwick, was 34 and her mother, Laura Riley Annis, was 26. She married Josiah Wheet on 16 March 1863. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She lived in Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1870. She died on 1 July 1879, in Groton, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in North Groton Cemetery, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Southwick, including those in Durham, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Northamptonshire, Sussex, and Wiltshire, named with Old English sūth ‘south, southern’ + wīc ‘dwelling, specialized farm’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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