When Hannah Leona Wells was born on 16 February 1854, in Union Township, Monroe, Ohio, United States, her father, Claudius Cory Wells Jr., was 24 and her mother, Anna Collins, was 21. She married William James “Mack” McKee on 8 January 1872, in Cerro Gordo, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Inman Township, Otter Tail, Minnesota, United States in 1880 and Mills, Keya Paha, Nebraska, United States in 1900. She died on 7 April 1904, in Brocksburg, Keya Paha, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Beaver View Cemetery, Crofton, Knox, Nebraska, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1858: Otter Tail, Minnesota, 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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