When Rupert Conk Best was born on 22 December 1872, in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Alfred Best, was 43 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Conk, was 31. He married Josephine Skidmore Hardy on 5 February 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 3, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 31 December 1949, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English best(e) (Old English betst) ‘best, finest (person)’.
English, northern Irish, and French: nickname from Middle English best(e), Old French beste ‘beast, animal’ (especially those used for food or work), applied either as a metonymic occupational name for someone who looked after beasts, such as a herdsman, or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble an animal. Compare English Bester 1.
English: from a Middle English adverbial expression of the Best, but the meaning is unknown.
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