When William Monroe Bledsoe was born on 22 March 1896, in Bloomfield, Scott, Missouri, United States, his father, James Douglas Bledsoe, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Ellen Bagby, was 24. He married Ruby Jewell Pierce on 7 April 1923, in Bernie, Stoddard, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Cotton Hill Township, Dunklin, Missouri, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1921. He died on 11 June 1965, in Bernie, Stoddard, Missouri, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Bernie Memorial Cemetery, Bernie, Stoddard, Missouri, United States.
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English: habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire named Bledisloe, from the Old English personal name Blīth (a byname meaning ‘cheerful’) + Old English hlāw ‘mound, tumulus’. This surname is very rare in Britain.
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