When Rebecca Ruth Farthing was born on 4 December 1909, in Watauga, North Carolina, United States, her father, Joseph Elmore Farthing, was 29 and her mother, Ida Mary "Polly" Harmon, was 29. She married William Clyde Bunton on 4 December 1932, in Carter, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Beech Creek, Avery, North Carolina, United States in 1940 and Beech Mountain Township, Avery, North Carolina, United States in 1950. She died on 6 November 1995, in Banner Elk, Avery, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Mount Gilead, Avery, North Carolina, United States.
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English:
from the Middle English personal name Farthein, Farthing, Ferthing (Old Norse Farthegn, late Old English Færthegn), composed of the elements far ‘ship, passage’ + thegn ‘warrior, nobleman, or retainer’.
habitational name from a place called in Middle English with ferthing (Old English fēorthing ‘fourth part, quarter’). Until 1960, when it was withdrawn, this was the name of the smallest British coin, worth one quarter of a penny. The same word was also used to denote a measure of land, normally one quarter of a virgate or other larger unit. The term is frequent in minor placenames in Sussex and is also found in Somerset and Devon.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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