Martha Cleveland Duncan George

Brief Life History of Martha Cleveland Duncan

When Martha Cleveland Duncan George was born on 8 December 1884, in Hickman, Tennessee, United States, her father, Ford George, was 41 and her mother, Unity Cloyd, was 40. She had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Alonzo Newton "Lon" Prince. She lived in Civil District 12, Hickman, Tennessee, United States for about 30 years. She died on 11 October 1961, in Hohenwald, Lewis, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Centerville, Hickman, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Alonzo Newton "Lon" Prince
1883–1954
Martha Cleveland Duncan George
1884–1961
Mary Alice Prince
1909–1924
Elzie George Prince
1909–1966
Maggie Lou Prince
1911–2001
Clara N Prince
1912–1998
James O Prince
1917–
William Walker Prince
1919–2008

Sources (14)

  • Mattie George in household of Ford George, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Mattie Cleveland George Prince, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
  • Mattie George Prince in entry for Elgie Prince, "Tennessee, Birth Records (ER Series), 1908-1912"

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Name Meaning

English, Welsh, French, and Romanian: from the personal name George, Latin Georgius, Greek Geōrgios, from an adjectival form, geōrgios ‘rustic’, of Greek geōrgos ‘farmer’. This became established as a personal name in classical times through its association with the fashion for pastoral poetry. Its popularity in western Europe increased at the time of the Crusades, which brought greater contact with the Orthodox Church, in which several Christian martyrs and saints of this name are venerated, in particular a saint believed to have been martyred at Nicomedia in AD 303, who, however, is at best a shadowy figure historically. Nevertheless, by the end of the Middle Ages Saint George had become associated with an unhistorical legend of dragon-slaying exploits, which caught the popular imagination throughout Europe, and he came to be considered the patron saint of England among other places. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages, e.g. German Georg , Assyrian/Chaldean Giwargis, Gewargis , or Georgis , and Albanian Gjergji , and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Greek Georgiadis , Georgopoulos , Hatzigeorgiou ‘George the Pilgrim’, and Papageorgiou , Romanian Georgescu or Gheorghescu, Serbian Djordjevic . The name George is also found among Christians in southern India (compare Geevarghese and Varghese ), but since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames, the southern Indian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.

German: variant of Georg .

Native American (e.g. Navajo): adoption of the English personal name George (see 1 above) as a surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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