Martha Shade was born in 1875. She died in 1985, at the age of 110.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on a boundary, from Middle English shed(e) ‘boundary’ (Old English scēad).
English: perhaps a nickname for a very thin man, from Middle English shade, shadwe ‘shadow’ (Old English sceadu).
Americanized form of German and Dutch Schade .
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