When Delilah Potter was born in 1803, in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States, her father, Royal Potter, was 31 and her mother, Rebekah Reavis, was 25. She married George Washington Green on 2 January 1824, in Bond, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Menard, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1861, in Covelo, Mendocino, California, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Covelo, Mendocino, California, United States.
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English and Dutch; North German (Pötter): occupational name for a maker of drinking and storage vessels, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Middle Low German pot. In the Middle Ages the term covered workers in metal as well as earthenware and clay.
In some cases also an Americanized form (translation into English) of Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian Lončar ‘potter’ (see Loncar ), and probably also of cognates from some other languages, e.g. Czech Hrnčíř (see Hrncir ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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