When Mary Elizabeth Eager was born in April 1837, in Ohio, United States, her father, Lewis Eager, was 45 and her mother, Mary W. Whitmarsh, was 33. She married Holden Levi Prosser on 6 July 1858, in Van Buren, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Bradford, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Cashel Township, Swift, Minnesota, United States in 1900. She died on 31 July 1914, in Wheaton, DuPage, Illinois, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, United States.
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English: in most cases probably a variant of Agar or Ager . The name might also have arisen as a nickname from Middle English egre ‘sharp, sour’ (Old French aigre), which developed various transferred senses when applied to people, including ‘impetuous’, ‘fierce’, and ‘angry’, and is the source of the modern English word eager. However, no Middle English examples of this kind have been found.
Irish (Cork and Wexford): variant of English Agar . Compare Eagar .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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