When Zerelda Jane Davidson was born on 11 January 1840, in Union Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States, her father, William Fleming Davidson, was 41 and her mother, Mary Ann Hostetter, was 21. She married Paul Huston Burns on 2 September 1858. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Crawfordsville, Union Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 4 October 1925, at the age of 85, and was buried in Oak Hill Grant Avenue Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Union Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States.
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Scottish, northern English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name David + -son. As a Jewish name, the last element comes from German Sohn ‘son’.
Irish (Down) and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt .
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Davidsson: patronymic from the personal name David .
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