When Leander J Wells was born on 19 April 1815, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Henry Wells, was 41 and his mother, Elizabeth Ruth Edwards, was 42. He married Mary Louise Starnes about 1837, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He died in August 1849, in Leicester, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Brick Church Cemetery, Leicester, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States.
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English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
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