Brief Life History of Myrtha Eloise
When Myrtha Eloise Foote was born on 6 January 1870, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, George Washington Foote, was 38 and her mother, Melissa J. Cooper, was 28. She married Rev Albert Charles Johnson on 17 October 1894, in Woodstock Valley, Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Hudson Falls, Kingsbury, Washington, New York, United States in 1940 and Glens Falls, Warren, New York, United States for about 1 years. She died in 1954, at the age of 84, and was buried in Holden, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Myrtha F Johnson, "United States Census, 1940"
- Myrtha E Foote Johnson, "Find A Grave Index"
- M Foot in entry for W F Johnson, "Iowa, Old Age Tax Assistance Records, 1934-1958"
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Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from Middle English fot ‘foot’ (Old English fōt), sometimes translated in medieval documents by Latin cum pede ‘with the foot’. Probably a nickname for someone with a deformity of the foot or with large feet.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English personal name Fot, from Old Norse Fótr, originally a nickname with the same sense as 1 above.
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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