When Joseph Madison "Jack" Wells was born on 31 May 1891, in Louisiana, United States, his father, John Jordon Wells, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Louise Simmons, was 41. He married Jessica Belle Hunt in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in DeRidder, Beauregard, Louisiana, United States in 1910 and Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States for about 20 years. He died on 2 February 1969, in Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 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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