When Phoebe Burgett was born in 1798, in Hampshire, West Virginia, United States, her father, John Frederick Burgett, was 34 and her mother, Phoebe Kent, was 34. She married William Long on 19 September 1816, in Greene, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States in 1860. She died on 19 May 1874, in Lauramie Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Lauramie Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived by a castle or city gate, Middle English burgate, or a habitational name from a place called Burgate, from Old English burh-geat with the same meaning, examples of which are found in Hampshire, Suffolk, and Surrey.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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