When Ezra M Prowant was born on 25 September 1902, in Perry Township, Putnam, Ohio, United States, his father, Jacob Daniel Prowant, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Guyton, was 32. He married Priscilla Anna Andrews on 22 November 1921, in Putnam, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 22 January 1931, in Perry Township, Putnam, Ohio, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Cascade Cemetery, Cloverdale, Putnam, Ohio, United States.
Probably an altered form of German Probandt, perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a provider of food, from Middle High German profant, probande ‘provisions’.
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