When Orville McKinley Savage Jr. was born on 22 November 1923, in Martinsville, Washington Township, Morgan, Indiana, United States, his father, Orville McKinley Savage, was 26 and his mother, Cleo Gladys Foster, was 20. He married Margaret Ann Scherer on 8 June 1946, in Martinsville, Washington Township, Morgan, Indiana, United States. He lived in Washington Township, Morgan, Indiana, United States in 1930 and Hammond, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1950. He died on 1 November 1985, in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Garland Brook Cemetery, Columbus, Columbus Township, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States.
English: of Norman origin, a nickname for a wild or uncouth person, from Middle English and Old French salvage, sauvage ‘wild, untamed’ (from Late Latin salvaticus, literally ‘man of the woods’, a derivative of Latin silva ‘wood’ influenced by Latin salvus ‘whole’, i.e. natural). Compare French Sauvage .
Irish (Down): generally of English origin (it was taken to County Down in the 12th century), this name has also sometimes been adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Sabháin, the name of a small south Munster sept, which was earlier Anglicized as O'Savin (see Savin ).
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Savich and of Serbian Savić (see Savic ).
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