When Lydia Sabina Sawyer was born on 1 September 1827, in New York, United States, her father, Elijah Weston Sawyer, was 37 and her mother, Sarah Drake, was 34. She married Erastus Masters in 1849, in Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Hartford Township, Trumbull, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 1 October 1918, in Titusville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Titusville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, from Middle English sauer(e), sauw(i)er, also sagh(i)er, sag(i)er ‘sawyer’, a derivative of Old English sagu ‘saw’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname, or translation into English of Jewish Seger or some other surname meaning ‘sawyer’, e.g. German Sager and Slovenian Žagar (see Zagar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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