When Clifford Brown Beaver was born on 25 July 1912, in North Carolina, United States, his father, William Jeremiah Beaver, was 29 and his mother, Mary Jane Deal, was 30. He married Virgie Delma Beaver on 5 December 1932, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in China Grove Township, Rowan, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years and China Grove, Rowan, North Carolina, United States in 1973. He died on 22 March 1973, in Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Rowan, North Carolina, United States.
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English: habitational name from Belvoir in Leicestershire, pronounced beever (/bi:və/), so named with Old French beu, bel ‘fair, lovely’ + veïr, voir ‘to see’, i.e. a place with a fine view. This name may also be derived from any of several places in France called Beauvoir, for example in Manche, Somme, and Seine-Maritime, all of which have the same etymology as above.
English: nickname from Middle English bever, bevre (Old English beofor) ‘beaver’, possibly referring to a hard worker, or from some other fancied resemblance to the animal. The existence of patronymic forms such as Beaverson suggest that this may also have been a personal name.
Native American (Creek): from a translation into English of the Muscogee Creek clan name Echaswvlke (‘Beaver clan’), derived from a word meaning ‘beaver’.
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