Brief Life History of Samuel Jerome
When Samuel Jerome Ward was born about 1845, in Cass Township, Clay, Indiana, United States, his father, Samuel Ward Jr., was 27 and his mother, Sarah Ann Fallis, was 26. He died on 21 July 1845, in Indiana, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Sutton Cemetery, Winamac, Monroe Township, Pulaski, Indiana, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Samuel Jerome Ward - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Samuel Jerome Ward
- Samuel J Ward, "Find A Grave Index"
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1845
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Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).
English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.
Irish: shortened form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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