Willis T. Farmer

Brief Life History of Willis T.

Willis T. Farmer was born before 1874. He married Inez Camille Funkhouser on 9 November 1910, in Bowling Green, Pike, Missouri, United States.

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Willis T. Farmer
1874–
Inez Camille Funkhouser
1876–1936
Marriage: 9 November 1910

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  • Willis T Farmer, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"

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Name Meaning

English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.

Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.

Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .

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

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