Leah Eudora Dunford

Brief Life History of Leah Eudora

When Leah Eudora Dunford was born on 24 February 1874, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Alma Bailey Dunford, was 23 and her mother, Susan Amelia Young, was 17. She married John Andreas Widtsoe on 1 June 1898, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Bloomington, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States in 1880 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 7 June 1965, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Andreas Widtsoe
1872–1952
Leah Eudora Dunford
1874–1965
Marriage: 1 June 1898
Anna Gaarden Widtsoe
1899–1990
John Andreas Widtsoe Jr.
1901–1902
Karl Marselius Widtsoe
1902–1927
Mark Adriel Widtsoe
1904–1906
Helen Widtsoe
1907–1907
Mary Widtsoe
1909–1909
Leah Eudora Widtsoe
1912–1995

Sources (36)

  • Leah Dunford Widtsoe in household of John A Widtsoe, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Leah E. Dunford, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
  • Leah Eudora Dunford Dunford Widtsoe, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1965"

World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

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, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

Name Meaning

habitational name from Dunford Bridge, in Thurlstone (Yorkshire), so called from the river Don (a British name possibly meaning ‘river’) + Old English ford ‘ford’, or from Dunford House in Methley (Yorkshire), named in Old English as ‘Dunn's ford’ (see Dunn 2).

variant of Durnford, a habitational name from Durnford in Wiltshire, arising from Old English dierne + ford ‘hidden ford’. Alternatively, the name may perhaps arise from Dunford, alias Durnford, in Addlestone (Surrey).

English:

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

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