When Clyde Edgar Hewitt was born on 13 February 1904, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, his father, Claude Edgar Hewitt, was 31 and his mother, Ida May Dargitz, was 33. He died in February 1981, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Prairie Home Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States.
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1904–1981 Male
1904–1988 Female
1872–1942 Male
1871–1925 Female
1895–1927 Male
1898–1947 Male
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1904–1981 Male
1910–1990 Male
English:
from the Middle English personal name Hewet, Huet, Hughet, Howet, pet forms of Hugh (Middle English Hewe, Hue; see Hugh and compare Hew ). The spelling Hughet stood for both Huet and the synonymous Huget; see Huggett . This surname has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
habitational name from Hewitts in Chelsfield or Hewitts in Willesborough (both Kent), both named from Old English hīewett ‘cutting’, denoting a place where trees had been cut down. Here there lived families called de la Hewatte (1270), de la hewett (1301), and atte Hewete (1338). The name may also be topographic for someone who lived in a newly made clearing in a wood.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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