When William A. Hager was born on 26 May 1886, in Sunfield, Sunfield Township, Eaton, Michigan, United States, his father, William R. Hager, was 52 and his mother, Abigail Abby Perkins, was 45. He died on 30 September 1886, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Sunfield Cemetery, Sunfield, Sunfield Township, Eaton, Michigan, United States.
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Dutch and North German: from an ancient Germanic personal name composed of hag ‘hedge, enclosure’ + hari, heri ‘army’.
Dutch and North German: from an ancient Germanic personal name, Hadugar, composed of the elements hadu ‘combat, strife’ + gari (from garwa) ‘ready, eager’ or gari ‘spear’.
German (also Häger): topographic name for someone who lived by a hedged or fenced enclosure, Middle High German hac. Compare Hoge .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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