Addison L. Whitcomb was born on 8 December 1839, in Clinton, Clinton Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States as the son of John Right Whitcomb. He lived in Clinton Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 7 October 1886, in Clinton, Clinton Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Clinton, Clinton Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Whitcombe or Witcombe. Whitcombe in Dorset and Witcombe in Gloucestershire are named with Old English wīd ‘wide’ + cumb ‘valley’; Whitcombe, Isle of Wight, may have the same etymology or alternatively the first element may be Old English hwīt ‘white’. Witcombe in Somerset is named with Old English wīthig ‘willow’ + cumb, and the placename Whitcombe in Devon is from Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + cumb. The surname may also derive from a lost place in Sussex.
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