When Iza Phila Cleveland was born on 14 May 1856, in Allegany, New York, United States, her father, Luman Johnson Cleveland, was 21 and her mother, Rhoda Elizabeth Perkins, was 15. She married Frank M. Woodard on 1 November 1887, in Allegany, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Scio, Allegany, New York, United States for about 5 years and Wirt, Allegany, New York, United States for about 10 years. She died on 21 February 1933, in United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Friendship, Allegany, New York, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of several places in Devon, Essex, or the North Yorkshire, formed from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank, slope’ + land ‘land’.
Americanized form (and a rare Norwegian variant) of Norwegian Kleveland or its variant Kleiveland, and also of Kleven or its variant Kleiven.
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