When Etta Gable was born in 1903, in Texas, United States, her father, George William Gable, was 42 and her mother, Helen Euzede Herod, was 35. She lived in Justice Precinct 4, Navarro, Texas, United States in 1910.
English (southeastern): nickname, perhaps from Middle English gabel, a variant of gavel ‘manorial or customary rent’ (Old English gafol, medieval Latin gabulum), denoting someone with land or a tenement that owed such dues.
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Gabel .
Possibly an altered form of German Göbel (see Goebel ).
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