When Malinda Jane Miles was born on 9 October 1841, in Shelby, Kentucky, United States, her father, Dr. William Miles, was 34 and her mother, Amelia Ursula Cook, was 28. She married Robert Lockwood in 1858, in Gentry, Gentry, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Deshler Election Precinct, Thayer, Nebraska, United States in 1885 and Almena, Norton, Kansas, United States in 1910. She died on 17 August 1919, in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1843: De Kalb created from Non-County Area 12
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English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Mile + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or from its other Old French form Miles, a derivative of ancient Germanic Milo, based on the element mil, from mel ‘good, generous’. The Old French oblique case form was Milon (see Milon 1). Compare Millen and Millson .
English: variant, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, of Myhill , from a vernacular form of the Biblical name Michael . Miles Coverdale, the translator of the Bible, when in Germany, called himself Michael Anglus (‘the Englishman’).
Irish (Louth and Kilkenny): when not the same as 1 or 2, it is sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, see Myles .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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