When William Reuben Cane was born on 5 August 1902, in Creek Township, Wagoner, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Charles Ruben Cane, was 31 and his mother, Mollie Belle Foster, was 25. He lived in Wagoner, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Blue Mound Township, Wagoner, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. He died on 30 November 1985, at the age of 83, and was buried in Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, Wagoner, Wagoner, Oklahoma, United States.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Caen in Calvados (France). See also Cain and Cam .
English: from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Cana, which is probably of ancient Germanic origin.
English: nickname for a tall thin man, from Middle English, Old French cane ‘cane, reed’ (from Latin canna). It may also be a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered reeds, which were widely used in the Middle Ages as a floor covering, as roofing material, and for weaving small baskets.
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