When Martha Wright Cave was born on 21 March 1844, in Danville, Montgomery, Missouri, United States, her father, Henry Cave Jr, was 44 and her mother, Frances Cleveland Craig, was 39. She married John Vernoy Craig on 2 December 1864, in Nemaha, Kansas, United States. She died on 26 February 1901, in Jasper, Missouri, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Jasper, Missouri, United States.
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English: habitational name from a place in East Yorkshire called Cave, apparently from a river name derived from Old English cāf ‘swift’.
English (of Norman origin): nickname from Norman and Picard Old French cauf (from Latin calvus) ‘bald’.
French: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a cave, from Old French cave ‘cave’, ‘cellar’ (from Latin cavea, a derivative of cavus ‘hollow’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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