When LaFayette Cox Lee was born on 31 July 1894, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, his father, Milton La Fayette Lee, was 41 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Cox, was 26. He married Augusta Pearl Mortensen on 26 May 1915, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Hinckley, Millard, Utah, United States in 1920 and United States in 1949. He died on 18 February 1975, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Elysian Burial Gardens, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
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