When Cyntha Billiter was born on 31 January 1843, in Grant, Kentucky, United States, her father, Daniel Billeter, was 53 and her mother, Lucinda "Lucy" Wortman, was 17. She married James Crawford on 15 September 1859, in Grant, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 3 Napoleon, Gallatin, Kentucky, United States in 1900. She died on 29 June 1919, in Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Florence, Boone, Kentucky, United States.
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English (Surrey): occupational name for a bell-founder, from Middle English belleyetere ‘bell-founder’. Compare Billeter . It is unlikely that there would have been enough work to keep anyone employed exclusively in making bells, and there is evidence that bell makers were general founders, engaged for the most part in making smaller domestic items, such as pots and buckles. This surname has now died out in Britain. Compare Geater .
Americanized form of Swiss German Billeter .
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