When Kim Sawyer was born on 18 May 1951, in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, United States, his father, David George Sawyer, was 25 and his mother, Mayall Huntington, was 21. He died on 18 May 1951, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Hatch, Garfield, Utah, United States.
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English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, from Middle English sauer(e), sauw(i)er, also sagh(i)er, sag(i)er ‘sawyer’, a derivative of Old English sagu ‘saw’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname, or translation into English of Jewish Seger or some other surname meaning ‘sawyer’, e.g. German Sager and Slovenian Žagar (see Zagar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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