When Walter Arthur Railsback was born in 1908, in Kansas, United States, his father, Fredrick B Railsback, was 44 and his mother, Susan Margaret Aurandt, was 36. He lived in Ionia, Jewell, Kansas, United States in 1910.
Altered form of German Railsbach, a habitational name, probably a shortened form of Raigelsbach, from Middle High German reigel ‘heron’ + bach ‘stream, creek’; or an altered form of Reulbach, a habitational name from a place so named in the Rhön Mountains in Hesse.
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