Brief Life History of John Ewing
When John Ewing Foote was born on 4 April 1850, in Lee, Iowa, United States, his father, John Graham Foote, was 35 and his mother, Eliza Jane Ewing, was 26. He died on 19 April 1850, at the age of 0, and was buried in Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- John Ewing Foote, "Find A Grave Index"
Parents and Siblings
1814–1896 Male
1824–1853 Female
Siblings (4)
1847–1848 Male
1848–1926 Female
1850–1850 Male
1851–1857 Female
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from Middle English fot ‘foot’ (Old English fōt), sometimes translated in medieval documents by Latin cum pede ‘with the foot’. Probably a nickname for someone with a deformity of the foot or with large feet.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English personal name Fot, from Old Norse Fótr, originally a nickname with the same sense as 1 above.
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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