When Rev John Paul Rimmer was born on 12 April 1921, in Fallstown Township, Iredell, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Franklin Rimmer, was 34 and his mother, Lizzie Lavina Troutman, was 24. He married Eva Bryte Bess Rimmer on 8 April 1944, in Gaston, North Carolina, United States. He lived in Cherryville, Gaston, North Carolina, United States in 2007. He died on 29 April 2007, at the age of 86, and was buried in Troutman, Iredell, North Carolina, United States.
English: occupational name for a poet, minstrel, or balladeer, principally from Anglo-Norman French rimour, rymour ‘poet’, but perhaps occasionally a derivative of Middle English rimen ‘to compose or recite verses’.
Possibly an altered form of German Riemer .
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