Brief Life History of Levi Sawyer
When Levi Sawyer York was born on 1 February 1868, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Asa Bartlett York, was 35 and his mother, Ellen Amelia Williams, was 24. He married Arletta Ivie on 19 December 1889, in Provo Bench Election Precinct, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Mona, Juab, Utah, United States in 1870 and Orem, Utah, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 15 March 1922, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Levi J Williams in household of Elias W Williams, "United States Census, 1870"
- Levi York & Arletta Ivie, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Levi Sawyer York, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877
Historical Boundaries: 1877: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum, which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York, which became finally settled as the placename in the 13th century). The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of the East Slavic patronymic Yurkovich or its Croatian, Slovak, or Slovenian variants. Compare Yurk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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