When Bessie Marie Pitchford was born on 23 August 1897, in Cedar Rapids, Boone, Nebraska, United States, her father, James K Polk Pitchford, was 46 and her mother, Susan Rebecca Cox, was 41. She married Cecil Anthony Outsen on 25 March 1939, in Manila, Daggett, Utah, United States. She lived in Green River, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States in 1930 and Wyoming, United States in 1935. She died on 15 January 1959, in Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States.
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English (West Midlands): habitational name from Pitchford in Shropshire; the name is derived from Old English pic ‘pitch, resin’ + ford ‘ford’.
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