When Robert Marion Pickard was born on 5 September 1919, in Keyser, Mineral, West Virginia, United States, his father, Ewing Bernell Pickard, was 23 and his mother, Mabel Clare Stone, was 21. He lived in Mineral, West Virginia, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 6 September 2003, in Keyser, Mineral, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Keyser, Mineral, West Virginia, United States.
English (mainly Yorkshire) and German: habitational name for someone from Picardy in northern France (see Picard 1).
English: in some cases, possibly also from the Old French personal name Picard, probably from an ancient Germanic name, composed of the elements bic ‘sharp point, pointed weapon’ + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’.
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