When Allen Hewlitt Hunter Jack was born on 17 July 1858, in Fort Payne, DeKalb, Alabama, United States, his father, John McCallie Porterfield Jack, was 33 and his mother, Judea Hunter, was 25. He married Mary T McMurray on 14 December 1887, in Hill, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Jackson, Alabama, United States in 1880. He died on 7 February 1926, in Hillsboro, Hill, Texas, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Bynum, Hill, Texas, United States.
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English and Scottish: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Jak, Jakke, Jagge, Jake, Jeke, Jegge, a Picard-Flemish denasalized form of Old Picard and Middle Dutch Janke, a pet form of Jan (see John ). It was introduced by Flemings and Picards into Norman and Anglo-Norman usage, whence it became a common English and Scottish pet form of John. Although the surname is mainly Scottish in distribution, it also occurs in England, though the more common form there is Jackson .
English: occasionally perhaps from a Middle English borrowing of the Old French personal name Jacque(s) (James). However, it is uncertain whether English Jack was ever used as an alternative to James.
Native American (e.g. Navajo): adoption of the English personal name Jack (see 1 above) as a surname.
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