When Sarah Ellen Wakefield was born on 8 July 1854, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, John Fleming Wakefield, was 41 and her mother, Susannah Garlick, was 34. She married Orville Ephraim Bates on 25 January 1869, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States in 1870 and World in 1935. She died on 18 October 1938, in Taylor, Navajo, Arizona, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Taylor Cemetery, Taylor, Navajo, Arizona, United States.
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English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in Yorkshire and from Wakefield Lawn in Potterspury (Northamptonshire). Both are named from the Old English personal name Waca or Old English wacu ‘wake, festival’ + feld ‘open country’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
LIFE HISTORY OF THOMAS GARLICK WAKEFIELD Account written by Fern Wakefield Mendenhall (daughter) Thomas Garlick Wakefield was born June 16, 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. He was a son of …
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