Brief Life History of Joseph Sterling
When Joseph Sterling Lee was born on 29 August 1870, in Putnam, Tennessee, United States, his father, Joseph Richard Lee, was 36 and his mother, Margaret Helen Caroline Lee, was 37. He died in 1873, at the age of 3.
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1833–1918 Male
1832–1894 Female
Siblings (9)
1853–1930 Female
1855–1856 Male
1857–1944 Female
1859–1873 Male
1862–1868 Female
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World Events (2)
1872 · The First National Park
Age 2
1872 · The Amnesty Act
Age 2
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.
English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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