William Monroe Foote

Brief Life History of William Monroe

When William Monroe Foote was born on 6 July 1866, in Lenox Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Henry Foote, was 34 and his mother, Juliet Rosengrant, was 29. He married Lovisa Emily Russell on 10 April 1892, in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Tunkhannock, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Tunkhannock Township, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. He died on 22 December 1955, in Springville, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Sunnyside Cemetery, Tunkhannock, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Monroe Foote
1866–1955
Lovisa Emily Russell
1876–1938
Marriage: 10 April 1892
Maude Foote
1896–1976
Flossie Beatrice Foote
1898–1991
Elsie D Foote
1905–1999
Orval G Foote
1908–1992
Ruth Jaynett Foote
1911–1988

Sources (17)

  • William Foote, "United States, Census, 1950"
  • Wm M Foote and Nisa E Russell, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1775-1991"
  • William Monroe Foote, "Find A Grave Index"

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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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