When Melvin J Stauffer was born on 28 May 1857, in Richland, Ohio, United States, his father, Jacob Stauffer Jr., was 46 and his mother, Sara Stark, was 44. He married Mary Ellen Stout on 10 April 1878, in Ashland, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Butler, Worthington Township, Richland, Ohio, United States in 1910 and Ohio, United States in 1932. He died on 14 January 1932, in Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, United States.
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South German:
occupational name for a maker or seller of beakers or mugs, from an agent derivative of Middle High German stouf ‘beaker, stoup’.
habitational name for someone from any of various minor places called with this word, for example Stauf, Staufen; the reference is to hills thought to resemble a beaker in shape. Compare Stouffer .
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