When Hugh Wesley Bledsoe was born on 29 July 1894, in Galatia, Saline, Illinois, United States, his father, James Douglas Bledsoe, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Ellen Bagby, was 22. He married Adaline Clayton on 23 October 1915, in Greene, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Stoddard, Stoddard, Missouri, United States in 1940 and Liberty Township, Stoddard, Missouri, United States in 1950. He died on 7 August 1988, in Dexter, Stoddard, Missouri, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in 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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