When Anessteen Post was born in 1865, in May Hill, Scott Township, Adams, Ohio, United States, her father, Adam Cunningham Post, was 35 and her mother, Hette Peterson, was 28. She married Daniel F. Williams on 4 April 1883, in Highland, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Ohio, United States in 1870. She died about 1886, at the age of 22.
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North German, Danish, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived near a post or pole (Middle Low German, Middle Dutch post, from Latin postis), presumably one of some significance, e.g. serving as a landmark or boundary, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany called Post, probably from this word.
North German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a messenger or mailman, from post ‘mail’.
Probably also an altered form of German Pfost .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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