When Claude Thomas Wells was born on 4 March 1894, in Winchester, Franklin, Tennessee, United States, his father, Henry Marion Wells, was 30 and his mother, Rebecca Ann Warren, was 24. He married Lorene V. Summers on 25 October 1917, in Dallas, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Justice Precinct 4, Montague, Texas, United States for about 10 years and Bowie, Montague, Texas, United States in 1950. He died on 24 February 1972, in Montague, Texas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Stoneburg, Montague, Texas, 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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