When Madalyn Cropper was born on 2 September 1951, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, Melvin Marlow Cropper, was 21 and her mother, Carol Dawn Moody, was 22. She died on 21 August 1957, in Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 5, and was buried in Deseret City Cemetery, Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States.
English (mainly Lancashire): occupational name for a picker of fruit or vegetables or a reaper of cereal crops, from cropper(e) ‘one who reaps crops or trims trees’, an agent derivative of Middle English cropt(en) ‘to pick’. The word was used also to denote the polling of livestock and the name may therefore have been given to someone with this responsibility.
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