Brief Life History of John Percival
When John Percival Lee was born on 20 April 1824, in Fayetteville, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States, his father, John H Lee, was 32 and his mother, Margaret Dudney, was 25. He married Eliza Ann Foscue on 25 February 1844, in Coosa, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1868 and lived in Arizona, United States in 1892 and Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States in 1900. In 1845, his occupation is listed as educator and school superintendent is on the head stone. He died on 30 April 1907, in Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Thatcher Cemetery, Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States.
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- Jno P Lee, "California, State Census, 1852"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Percival Lee - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: John Perciaval Lee
- John P. Lee, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
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1833
Created 1833.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
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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John P Lee's report on his mission to the Southern States.
John Percival Lee's letter to the Editor of the Deseret News, dated March 3rd 1869. Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 3rd 1869. Sir. After a long delay I have at length found time to give yo …
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