When Emma Jane Sawyer was born on 22 June 1860, in Warm Springs, Fremont, Alameda, California, United States, her father, Joseph Sturgis Sawyer, was 22 and her mother, Sarah Jane Pike, was 21. She married Barnett Wesley Pack on 4 July 1880, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in California, United States in 1870. She died on 23 December 1885, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, from Middle English sauer(e), sauw(i)er, also sagh(i)er, sag(i)er ‘sawyer’, a derivative of Old English sagu ‘saw’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname, or translation into English of Jewish Seger or some other surname meaning ‘sawyer’, e.g. German Sager and Slovenian Žagar (see Zagar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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