When Stella Archer was born on 28 March 1874, in Walker, Texas, United States, her father, Peterson Clack Archer, was 40 and her mother, Sarah Jane Loutissa Guerrant, was 21. She married George Ransom Allphin about 1900, in Walker, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Justice Precinct 2, Walker, Texas, United States for about 50 years. She died on 24 May 1939, in Walker, Texas, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Navasota, Grimes, Texas, United States.
English and French: from Middle English archere, Anglo-Norman French archer, Old French archier ‘bowman’, hence an occupational name for an archer. This Norman French word partially replaced the native English word bowman in the 14th century. In North America, this surname may have absorbed some cases of European cognates such as French Archier. Compare Larcher .
German: from an agent derivative of Old High German archa ‘mill-race’ (from Latin arca ‘chest, box’). This surname is rare in Germany.
Germanized form of Slovenian Arhar: German-influenced patronymic from the personal name Arh (see Arch 3), an old vernacular equivalent of Henry . Alternatively, perhaps a topographic name derived from Old High German archa ‘mill-race’ (see 2 above), hence a cognate of Slovenian Rakar (see Raker 4).
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