When Charles Henry Southwood was born on 24 May 1884, in Cleveland, England, United Kingdom, his father, Albert Southwood, was 21 and his mother, Catherine Rowling, was 21. He married Myrtle Reaphy McClain on 27 January 1912, in Shelburn, Curry Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States. He registered for military service in 1884. He died in 1957, in Shelburn, Curry Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Little Flock Cemetery, Shelburn, Curry Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States.
English:
habitational name from one or more of several places in southern England, especially in Devon, named with Middle English bi southe wode ‘(place) to the south of the wood’.
habitational name from one or more minor places called Southwood or Sowood, from Middle English south(e) + wode ‘south wood’. Sowood in Osset (Yorkshire) is the most likely source of the Yorkshire name. There may have been confusion with Southworth .
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