When Rulon Seymour Wells was born on 7 July 1854, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Daniel Hanmer Wells, was 39 and his mother, Louisa Free, was 29. He had at least 2 sons and 5 daughters with Josephine Eliza Beatie. He lived in United States in 1940. He died on 7 May 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
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