When Sarah Ann Grinder was born on 16 December 1842, in Hector, Pope, Arkansas, United States, her father, Nicholas Grinder, was 28 and her mother, Margaret Calhoun, was 24. She married William Henderson Sims on 1 January 1860, in Hector, Pope, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Freedom Township, Polk, Arkansas, United States in 1880 and White Township, Polk, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 9 October 1923, at the age of 80, and was buried in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Big Fork, Polk, Arkansas, United States.
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English (Middlesex and Sussex): occupational name for a grinder of grain, i.e. a miller, from Middle English grinder ‘grinder of corn, miller’ (Old English grindere), an agent noun from Old English grindan ‘to grind’. Less often it may have referred to someone who ground blades to keep their sharpness or who ground pigments, spices, and medicinal herbs to powder.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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