Jobe Springer

Brief Life History of Jobe

When Jobe Springer was born on 25 August 1816, in Mississippi, United States, his father, John Springer, was 30 and his mother, Minerva Whatley, was 23. He married Nancy Ellison on 2 January 1840, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Beat 4, Lee, Mississippi, United States in 1880 and Lee, Mississippi, United States in 1880. He died on 8 November 1880, in Itawamba, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in New Chapel Cemetery, Evergreen, Itawamba, Mississippi, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jobe Springer
1816–1880
Francis Walker
1833–1880
Marriage: about 1854
Bazil Springer
1855–1919
Zoerabel Springer
1858–1936
Asominta Springer
1864–1865
James Lowry Springer
1867–1906
Lou Springer
1867–
William Thomas Springer Sr
1870–1930
Nancy Springer
1873–1930
Ida Springer
1880–

Sources (8)

  • Job Springer, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Job Springer, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  • Jobe Springer, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1817

Mississippi is the 20th state.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1834

Oldest grave seen in memorials list.

Name Meaning

English, German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a lively person or for a traveling entertainer, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Middle High German springen, Middle Dutch springhen, Yiddish shpringen ‘to jump or leap’. The surname of German origin is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, Czechia, and Slovenia (see also 4 below). In part, it is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ).

English: occupational name from Middle English springer(e) ‘dancer(?), fencer(?)’; ‘one who traps animals or birds(?)’, a derivative either of Middle English springen ‘to spring up, leap’ (Old English springan) or Middle English spring ‘dance, fencing stroke, bird snare’.

English: perhaps a topographic name from Middle English springer, for someone who lived by a plantation of young trees or by a spring (Middle English spring ‘young tree, young plantation, copse’, ‘spring, source of a stream’; compare Spring ). This type of formation, where the suffix -er is added to a topographic term, is especially frequent in Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire, but no evidence has yet been found to support this derivation of Springer.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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