When Samson Wetherell III was born on 5 August 1795, in New Braintree, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Sampson Wetherell Jr., was 42 and his mother, Lydia Felton, was 40. He married Lucy Kendall on 11 January 1822, in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Petersham, Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1874. He died on 13 September 1874, in Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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English (Durham and Yorkshire): habitational name from Wetheral (Cumberland). The placename derives from Old English wether ‘wether, castrated ram’ + halh ‘nook, corner of land’.
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