When Shadrick M. Pettichord was born about 1798, in Shelbyville, Shelby, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Peddicord Sr, was 40 and his mother, Precious Lackland, was 26. He married Lucinda Dogette Shepherd on 11 April 1822, in Winchester, Clark, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Union Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Union Township, Mahaska, Iowa, United States in 1860. In 1850, at the age of 53, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 17 May 1871, in Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Grundy, Iowa, United States.
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English:
variant (especially in Essex) of Sheldrick , perhaps influenced by the personal name Shadrach (see 2 below).
apparently in some rare and late instances (especially in Wales) a vernacular form of the Old Testament personal name Shadrach, the name of one of the ‘three holy children’, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who were cast into a fiery furnace and not harmed (Daniel 1–3). Shadrach derives from a Chaldean Shudur Aku ‘command of the moon god’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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