Samuel Albert Cleaver

Brief Life History of Samuel Albert

When Samuel Albert Cleaver was born on 8 July 1875, in Hardin, Kentucky, United States, his father, David W Cleaver, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Ellen 'Sallie' Boyd, was 26. He married Eudora Shirley in 1904, in Hart, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Rowletts, Hart, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Munfordville, Hart, Kentucky, United States in 1930. He died in May 1957, in Hart, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Munfordville, Hart, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Albert Cleaver
1875–1957
Eudora Shirley
1879–1963
Marriage: 1904
Oscar Payne Cleaver
1905–1996

Sources (9)

  • Samuel A Cleaner, "United States Census, 1930"
  • S A Cleaver, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
  • Samuel A Cleaver in entry for Dora Shirley Cleaver, "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987"

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World Events (8)

1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.

The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.

1892 · The Radio is invented

Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

Name Meaning

English (South Midlands and Oxfordshire): from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’ (a derivative of Old English clēofan ‘to split’), hence an occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher. Alternatively, on occasion possibly a topographic name from Middle English cleve ‘bank, slope’ (from the dative of Old English clif) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.

Americanized form of German and Dutch Klever , and perhaps also of German Kliewer .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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