When Ezra Chase was born on 4 February 1796, in Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Timothy Chase, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Simmons, was 34. He married Tirzah Wells on 29 September 1818, in Greenfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 24 October 1873, in Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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English (southern): metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or perhaps a nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English chase ‘hunt’ (Old French chasse, from chasser ‘to hunt’, Latin captare).
History: Thomas Chase came to MA from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, in the 1640s, and had many prominent descendants. Samuel Chase, born in Somerset County, MD, in 1741, was one of the first members of the US Supreme Court; Philander Chase, born in Cornish, NH, in 1741 was a prominent Episcopal clergyman, and his nephew Salmon Portland Chase (1808–73), also born in Cornish, was governor of OH, a US senator, and secretary of the US Treasury during the Civil War.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesEzra Chase, the 7th of 9 children born to Timothy Chase and Sarah Simmons, was born February 4, 1796 in Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts. Ezra=s five older siblings, Abner, Sisson, Thurston, Charlot …
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