When Josephine Doll Ratliff was born on 1 June 1883, in Newtonia, Newton, Missouri, United States, her father, George Ebly Ratliff, was 22 and her mother, Hannah Elkior, was 17. She married Thomas Morgan Wormington on 30 October 1905, in Pierce City, Lawrence, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Berwick Township, Newton, Missouri, United States in 1940 and Van Buren Township, Newton, Missouri, United States in 1950. She died on 30 April 1974, in Pierce City, Lawrence, Missouri, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Berwick, Newton, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1888: Newton, Missouri, United States
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English (Suffolk): habitational name from one or more of the places so named, such as Radcliffe (Lancashire), Radcliffe on Trent and Ratcliffe on Soar (both Nottinghamshire), Radclive (Buckinghamshire), Ratcliffe Culey and Ratcliffe on the Wreake (both Leicestershire), Ratclyffe in Clyst Hydon, Ratcliffes in Thorverton, and Ratcliffes in Broad Clyst (all Devon), Ratcliff in Stepney (Middlesex), and Rackley in Compton Bishop (Somerset). The placenames derive from Old English rēad ‘red’ + clif ‘cliff, bank, steep slope’ (see also Rutley ). A family of the name Radcliffe trace their descent from Sir Nicholas de Radclyffe. He is said to have been a knight who held the major of Radcliffe in Lancashire and served Roger de Poitou, Baron de Marsey in the 11th century.
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