When James B. Mounts was born on 23 September 1857, in Gibson, Indiana, United States, his father, Thomas A. Mounts, was 39 and his mother, Minerva Jane Redman, was 33. He married Maranda J. Harris on 4 March 1880, in Gibson, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Johnson Township, Gibson, Indiana, United States in 1880. He died on 20 June 1936, in Montgomery Township, Gibson, Indiana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Cynthiana, Smith Township, Posey, Indiana, United States.
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Probably an altered form of Swiss German Maunz or Mantz .
English: variant of Mount , with post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is rare in Britain.
English (Devon): variant of Mounce .
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