When Amanda E. Howard was born on 21 October 1830, in Sweden Center, Monroe, New York, United States, her father, Sampson Howard, was 35 and her mother, Amanda S. Salisbury, was 31. She married Henry R. Root after 1852, in Monroe, New York, United States. She lived in Sweden, Monroe, New York, United States for about 30 years. She died on 5 April 1897, in Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Beach Ridge Cemetery, Brockport, Monroe, New York, United States.
English: of Norman origin, from the Middle English personal names Huward (also Howard) and Heward, from Old French Huard (itself from ancient Germanic Hugihard, hugi- ‘mind, understanding, spirit’ + hard- ‘hardy, bold’). As Hugh appears in Middle English as both How and Hew, this is the definite origin of Heward and a source of Howard. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Hugh .
English: from the Middle English personal name Haward or Howard, usually an Anglicized form of Old Danish Hāwarth (Old Norse Hávarthr, from há ‘high’ + varthr ‘guard, guardian, warden’). Alternation between Haward and Howard may have led to later confusion with Hayward .
English: occasionally a variant of Ewart 2.
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