When Amos Garner was born on 31 May 1814, in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, his father, Henry C Garner, was 24 and his mother, Margaret Mary Richardson, was 18. He married Susannah Nancy Long in 1835, in Franklin, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Civil District 12, Franklin, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died on 24 May 1884, in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Garner Cemetery, Franklin, Tennessee, United States.
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English (of Norman origin): perhaps occasionally from the Old French personal name Garnier (see Garnier ), but it is exeptionally rare as a personal name in medieval England and no certain evidence has been found for its use as a surname. Compare Warner .
English: from Middle English gern(i)er, garner, gurner, Anglo-Norman French gerner ‘granary’ (Old French grenier, from Late Latin granarium, a derivative of granum ‘grain’). It was probably a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of the stores kept in a granary.
English and Scottish: commonly shortened form of Gardner .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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