When James Harley Garner was born on 21 September 1864, in Cass, Illinois, United States, his father, William Shiverel Garner, was 26 and his mother, Nancy Matilda Crews, was 26. He married Alice Montgomery Wright on 19 July 1887, in Cass, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Township of Panther Creek, Cass, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Chandlerville, Cass, Illinois, United States in 1940. He died on 24 January 1940, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Garner Chapel Cemetery, Philadelphia, Cass, Illinois, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1882: Cass, Illinois, United States
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English (of Norman origin): perhaps occasionally from the Old French personal name Garnier (see Garnier ), but it is exeptionally rare as a personal name in medieval England and no certain evidence has been found for its use as a surname. Compare Warner .
English: from Middle English gern(i)er, garner, gurner, Anglo-Norman French gerner ‘granary’ (Old French grenier, from Late Latin granarium, a derivative of granum ‘grain’). It was probably a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of the stores kept in a granary.
English and Scottish: commonly shortened form of Gardner .
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