When Richard Edward East was born on 21 February 1919, in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Henry James East, was 50 and his mother, Ella May Miller, was 29. He lived in Buena Vista Township, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States for about 5 years and Florida City, Dade, Florida, United States in 1950. He died on 19 April 2008, in Fleetwood, Ashe, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Mount Olive Baptist Church Cemetery, Fleetwood, Ashe, North Carolina, United States.
English: topographic name for someone who came from the east or who lived on the eastern side of a settlement. Compare Estes .
Americanized form (translation into English) of North German Ost and Swedish Öst.
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