When James Michael Levee was born on 20 April 1853, in Manheim, Herkimer, New York, United States, his father, Michael Levee, was 29 and his mother, Nancy Bellinger, was 24. He married Mary Alice Klock on 17 October 1874, in Little Falls, Herkimer, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Herkimer, Herkimer, Herkimer, New York, United States in 1892 and Little Falls, Little Falls, Herkimer, New York, United States in 1892. He died on 24 October 1897, in Little Falls, Herkimer, New York, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Rural Park Cemetery, Ingham Mills Station, Manheim, Herkimer, New York, United States.
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Altered form of English Levey .
Americanized form of French Léveillé (see Leveille ).
French (Levée): topographic name for someone who lived on a piece of high ground, from levée ‘raised (ground), bank’, or a metonymic occupational name for a tax-collector, from levée (d’impôts) ‘tax levy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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