LaFayette Cox Lee

Brief Life History of LaFayette Cox

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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Family Time Line

LaFayette Cox Lee
1894–1975
Augusta Pearl Mortensen
1893–1959
Marriage: 26 May 1915
Marion Lafayette Lee
1916–2000
Milton Elwood Lee
1918–1945
Garth Loraine Lee
1920–1984
Evan Winslo Lee
1922–2010
Mae Lee
1924–1924
Ruth Lee
1926–2004

Sources (50)

  • Inspector Le, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Lafayette C. Lee, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
  • Lafayette Cox Lee, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"

World Events (8)

1895

China cedes Taiwan to Japan and permits Japan to trade in China.

1896 · Utah Becomes a State

After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

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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