Brief Life History of Earnest H.
When Earnest H. Dodd was born on 1 August 1894, in Warsaw, Benton, Missouri, United States, his father, Hansard Hamilton Dodd, was 58 and his mother, Rebecca J. Little, was 34. He died on 23 September 1895, at the age of 1, and was buried in Edwards, Benton, Missouri, United States.
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- Earnest H. Dodd, "Find A Grave Index"
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Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Dodd(e), Dudd(e), Old English Dodd(a), Dudd(a), a name of uncertain origin which remained in fairly widespread and frequent use from Lincolnshire to Devon and from Essex to Lancashire in England until the 14th century.
English: nickname from Middle English dod, a word of uncertain meaning, possibly a ‘lumpish, thickset person’ (compare modern English dialect dod ‘bunch or heap’), or by extension a ‘foolish person’ (compare Middle English dode-mused ‘stupid’), or perhaps a derivative of dodden ‘to shave (the head), to trim (hair)’, hence ‘the hairless or close-cropped one’.
English: possibly a modern variant of Daud or Dowd, the former arising from the Middle English personal name Daud(e), an extended form of Daw , and the latter from the Middle English personal name Doude, perhaps a side-form of either Dodde or of Daude, a pet form of Ralph .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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