When Vester Ray Arnold was born on 9 September 1935, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Albert H Arnold, was 24 and his mother, Lossie Lee Wheeler, was 23. He married Clara Belle Tilley on 13 September 1976, in Durham, North Carolina, United States. He died on 24 February 1977, in Durham, Durham, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
English, Scottish, German, Dutch, French (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Croatian, and Slovenian: from the ancient Germanic personal name Arnwald (Middle English Arnold, Old French Arnaut), composed of the elements arn ‘eagle’ + wald ‘rule, power’. This name was introduced to Britain by the Normans.
English: habitational name from either of two places called Arnold in Nottinghamshire and East Yorkshire, from Old English earn ‘eagle’ + halh ‘nook’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): adoption of the German personal name (see 1 above), at least in part on account of its resemblance to the Jewish name Aaron .
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