When Ida May Pitcher was born on 13 August 1873, in Lura Township, Faribault, Minnesota, United States, her father, Lafayette Adam Pitcher, was 37 and her mother, Isadore Maria Galpin, was 34. She married Abraham H Cory on 13 August 1898, in Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Faribault, Minnesota, United States in 1873 and Darnen Township, Stevens, Minnesota, United States in 1900. She died on 14 July 1901, in Morris, Stevens, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Minnesota, United States.
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English (mainly eastern and southern): from an agent derivative of Middle English pich ‘pitch’, hence an occupational name for a caulker, one who sealed the seams of ships or barrels with pitch.
Possibly from German Pitscher, from a short form of a personal name formed with Old High German bītan ‘to endure’, or bittan ‘to wish or ask for’, or from a variant of Pietsch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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