When Wilma Jean Sawyer was born on 17 February 1918, her father, Thomas Jefferson Sawyer, was 33 and her mother, Esther J Christianson, was 24. She married Cyrus Gerald Peterson on 20 September 1941, in Nodaway, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Webster, Keokuk, Iowa, United States in 1920. She died on 19 June 1976, in Morris, Grundy, Illinois, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Morris, Grundy, Illinois, United States.
English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, from Middle English sauer(e), sauw(i)er, also sagh(i)er, sag(i)er ‘sawyer’, a derivative of Old English sagu ‘saw’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname, or translation into English of Jewish Seger or some other surname meaning ‘sawyer’, e.g. German Sager and Slovenian Žagar (see Zagar ).
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