When Fannie Spafford was born on 5 February 1802, in Sharon, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Amos Spofford, was 36 and her mother, Mary Taggart, was 38. She married Asahel Howe on 25 December 1823, in Wakefield, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 2 April 1846, in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 44.
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English (Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire):
habitational name usually from Spalford (Nottinghamshire). The placename may derive from Old English Spaldas, the name of an Anglian tribe who settled chiefly in the fen-lands of Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, or from spald ‘ditch, trench’ + ford ‘ford’.
variant of Spofforth, a habitational name from Spofforth (Yorkshire), probably from Old English spot ‘small piece, plot of land’ + ford ‘ford’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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