When Sarah Edna Best was born on 20 September 1871, in Wayne, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States, her father, William Charles Best, was 40 and her mother, Ann Eliza Clingman, was 39. She married Edward Richard Mann on 7 September 1898. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Geneseo Township, Tama, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Big Bend Township, Republic, Kansas, United States in 1910. She died on 7 June 1959, at the age of 87.
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English and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English best(e) (Old English betst) ‘best, finest (person)’.
English, northern Irish, and French: nickname from Middle English best(e), Old French beste ‘beast, animal’ (especially those used for food or work), applied either as a metonymic occupational name for someone who looked after beasts, such as a herdsman, or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble an animal. Compare English Bester 1.
English: from a Middle English adverbial expression of the Best, but the meaning is unknown.
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