When Sarah Amantha Prior was born on 6 April 1852, in Gratiot, Licking, Ohio, United States, her father, Nathan Prior, was 37 and her mother, Hester Ann Palmer, was 25. She married John A. Cummins in 1878. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Franklin Township, Licking, Ohio, United States for about 40 years. She died on 5 May 1926, in Mount Gilead, Morrow, Ohio, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Jacksontown, Licking, Ohio, United States.
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English (southern), Scottish, Dutch, and German: ultimately from Latin prior ‘superior’, used to denote a prior, a monastic official immediately subordinate to an abbot, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a prior.
Irish: Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Mac an Phríora ‘son of the prior’ (this is the usual origin in counties Cavan and Leitrim). Some examples may be Anglo-Norman, the same name as in 1 above.
Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan: from prior, probably denoting someone in the service of a prior or a nickname for someone who behaved in a pompous way.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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