Leander Levi Clifford

Brief Life History of Leander Levi

When Leander Levi Clifford was born on 10 March 1879, in Weston, Franklin, Idaho, United States, his father, Leander Thomas Clifford, was 23 and his mother, Melissa Adelaide Gifford, was 19. He married Bertha Gertrude Adair on 21 March 1907, in Oneida, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Utah, United States for about 21 years and United States in 1947. He died on 23 March 1947, in Emmett, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Menan, Jefferson, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Leander Levi Clifford
1879–1947
Bertha Gertrude Adair
1881–1962
Marriage: 21 March 1907
Leander Thomas Androkle Clifford
1912–1970

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  • Leander Levi Clifford, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
  • Leander Levi Clifford, "Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1911"
  • Leander L. Clifford, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1890

Idaho is the 43rd state.

1897 · The Utah State Historical Society

The Utah State Historical Society was, founded in 1897 and now part of the Government of Utah's Division of State History. It encourages the research, study, and publication of Utah history. It also publishes a history journal named the Utah Historical Quarterly. The Utah State Historical Society has grown to several thousand members and has published over 300 issues of the Utah Historical Quarterly.

Name Meaning

English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Clifford in Devon, Gloucestershire, and Yorkshire, and in particular Herefordshire. The placename is derived from Old English clif ‘slope’ + ford ‘ford’.

Irish: adoption of the name in 1 above as Anglicization of several Irish names, especially Ó Clúmháin ‘descendant of Clúmhán’, which was the surname of an ecclesiastical family in Sligo and can be traced back to the 12th century. The personal name meant ‘little hairy one’, a diminutive of Irish clúmach ‘hairy’, from clúmh ‘feathers, plumage, down; hair or fur’. Clifford was also adopted for Coleman and in Fermanagh for Crifferty, Clifferty, and Cliffordy, which are Anglicized forms of Mac Raibheartaigh (compare Rafferty ).

History: A powerful Anglo-Norman family of this name in England and Ireland trace their descent from Walter de Clifford, who took the name from Clifford (Castle) in Herefordshire in the 12th century, after acquiring the Clifford barony by marriage.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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