When Emma Susan Thatcher was born in December 1857, in Mount Liberty, Knox, Ohio, United States, her father, Samuel William Thatcher Sr, was 31 and her mother, Sarah Ann Weller, was 28. She married Olen B Conway about 1878, in Knox, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in South Bloomfield Township, Morrow, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Liberty Township, Knox, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 7 May 1920, in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Centerburg Cemetery, Centerburg, Hilliar Township, Knox, Ohio, United States.
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English: occupational name for a thatcher, someone who covered roofs in straw, from an agent derivative of Middle English thach(en) ‘to thatch’ (Old English thæccan).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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