Brief Life History of Elgin Lawrence
When Elgin Lawrence Lester was born on 3 July 1908, in Penokee, Graham, Kansas, United States, his father, Luther Lester, was 28 and his mother, Pearl Bell Stancliff, was 26. He married Rita Berjetta Sickels on 5 July 1926, in Smith Center, Smith, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Lane, Oregon, United States in 1930 and Eugene Election Precinct 1, Lane, Oregon, United States in 1940. He died on 16 March 2001, in Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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Sources (22)
- Elgin L Lester, "United States 1950 Census"
- Elgin Lawrence Lester, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Marriage Records, 1906-1968"
- U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Spouse and Children
1908–2001 Male
1905–1998 Female
Children (3)
1926–1998 Male
1929–2011 Male
1931–2010 Female
Parents and Siblings
1880–1960 Male
1882–1969 Female
Siblings (6)
1899–1938 Female
1901–1969 Female
1903–2003 Male
1908–2001 Male
1915–1982 Male
+1 More Child
World Events (8)
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Age 1
1909 · Garden of the Gods Park
Age 1
1935 · The FBI is Established
Age 27
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Leicester, which is recorded as Ligeraceastre in the 10th century. The placename derives from an Old English folk name Legore ‘the dwellers by the river Legor (a lost river name)’ + Old English ceaster ‘city, Roman fortification’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Lestre in Normandy.
English and Scottish: variant of Lister .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Story Highlight
Eligin (Les) Lester, 1919
In September of 1919 Elgin was invited to to to a fair in Animas City, Colorado by Flip Shallis a neighbor boy, two years older. Having no money to pay his own way and it being a school day, his fath …
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