When Josephine Phoebe Lee was born on 21 February 1851, in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, her father, Captain William Henry Lee Sr, was 24 and her mother, Sophrania Augusta Kent, was 18. She married Frederick Elbridge Drown on 4 July 1870, in Elko, Elko, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Jiggs, Elko, Nevada, United States in 1900 and Oakland, Alameda, California, United States for about 10 years. She died on 16 December 1937, at the age of 86, and was buried in Elko, Elko, Nevada, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1866: Lander, Nevada, United States 1869: Elko, Nevada, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.
English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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