When Elmoda Lee Dejarnette was born on 11 January 1867, his father, John Thomas De Jarnette, was 25 and his mother, Suthella Francis Wyatt, was 20. He lived in Petersburg, Dinwiddie, Virginia, United States in 1900. He died on 14 November 1954, in Williamsburg, James City, Virginia, United States, at the age of 87.
Americanized form of French Jarnet, a variant of Jarnot (see Garneau ), with fused preposition de ‘of’. Altered ending reflects the Canadian and American French practice of sounding the final -t. Compare Dejarnett and Dejournette .
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