Brief Life History of Caroline
When Caroline Leffingwell was born on 24 April 1835, in Huntington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Elisha Leffingwell, was 47 and her mother, Louisa Clark, was 40. She died on 1 April 1919, in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Huntington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Caroline Leffingwell in household of Elisha Leffingwell, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Caroline Leffingwell - Published information: birth-name: Caroline Leffingwell
- Caroline C Leffingwell Wright, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Leppingwells in Essex, which is recorded as Leffingwelles in 1561 and owed its name to the possessions there of the family of Robert de Leffeldewelle (1302), who is called Leffingwell in an Elizabethan transcript of the Court Rolls.
History: The family, called Leffingwell in the 15th century and Leppingwell in the 16th, took its name from a lost place recorded as Liffildeuuella in 1086 (from the Old English personal name Lēofhild + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’), which may survive in a corrupt form in Levit's Corner in Pebmarsh (Essex), into which their possessions extended.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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