Brief Life History of Homer
When Homer Gifford was born on 9 July 1868, in Oneida, Idaho, United States, his father, Levi Gifford Jr, was 31 and his mother, Caroline Jaques, was 28. He married Sarah Sophia Hoopes on 9 December 1893, in Weston, Oneida, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Kuna, Ada, Idaho, United States for about 3 years and Boise, Idaho, United States in 1935. He died on 13 October 1935, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.
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- Homer Clifford in household of Levi Gifford, "United States Census, 1870"
- Homer Gifford, "Idaho, Death Certificates, 1911-1937"
- Homer G in entry for William D Gifford, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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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.
1870 · 1870 United States Federal Population Census
1870 United States Federal Population Census; population 995
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): variant of Giffard, either from the Middle English personal name Gifard, derived from an Old French name of this form deriving from ancient Germanic geb- ‘give, gift’ + hard- ‘hardy, brave’, or perhaps sometimes a nickname from Old French gif(f)ard ‘chubby-cheeked, bloated’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Homer Gifford shown in the picture with his grandson Chuck Gifford on his ranch in Idaho
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