When Richard Asa Rutland was born on 24 February 1875, in Mississippi, United States, his father, Hamilton Cooper Rutland, was 28 and his mother, Lydia Adeline Lee, was 27. He married Mellie Velma Brewer on 18 August 1906, in Simpson, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Beat 5, Covington, Mississippi, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 11 December 1953, in Covington, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 78.
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English: habitational name from the county of Rutland, from the Old English personal name Rōta (from rōt ‘cheerful, glad’) + Old English land ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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