When Vira Putnam was born on 22 March 1932, in Auburn, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States, her father, Aldon Israel Putnam, was 24 and her mother, Vira Greene, was 23. She died on 22 March 1932, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Auburn Cemetery, Auburn, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States.
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English (Middlesex and Buckinghamshire): habitational name from either of two places, in Hertfordshire and Surrey, called Puttenham, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Putta, meaning ‘kite’ (the bird) + Old English hām ‘homestead’.
History: John Putnam emigrated from England to Salem, MA, before 1641, and established a family that was still prominent in Massachusetts four generations later, including the revolutionary war soldier Israel Putnam (1718–90) and his cousin Rufus Putnam (1738–1824), also a soldier, one of the first settlers in OH.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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