When Mary Catherine Fortner was born on 25 November 1842, in Georgia, United States, her father, William D Fortner, was 32 and her mother, Mary Polly Head, was 22. She married James Alfred W. Parris on 4 January 1860, in Lumpkin, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Civil District 3, McMinn, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Civil District 4, McMinn, Tennessee, United States in 1920. She died on 28 September 1922, in McMinn, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Athens, McMinn, Tennessee, United States.
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German: variant (also Förtner) or Americanized form of Pförtner, an occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper in a great house, castle, or monastery, Middle High German phortenaere (from Latin porta ‘door, gate’). Compare English Porter .
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