When Lavina Lucy Cave was born on 20 October 1848, in Coral, McHenry, Illinois, United States, her father, Samuel Halstead Cave, was 38 and her mother, Emeline A Sturdevant, was 34. She married Samuel Kinney Gulliford on 16 February 1867, in Bremer, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Woodbury, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Correctionville, Woodbury, Iowa, United States in 1900. She died on 13 June 1908, in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery, St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1855: Woodbury, Iowa, United States
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English: habitational name from a place in East Yorkshire called Cave, apparently from a river name derived from Old English cāf ‘swift’.
English (of Norman origin): nickname from Norman and Picard Old French cauf (from Latin calvus) ‘bald’.
French: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a cave, from Old French cave ‘cave’, ‘cellar’ (from Latin cavea, a derivative of cavus ‘hollow’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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