When Clara Armedia Leavitt was born on 12 September 1856, in Cambria, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States, her father, Josiah Leavitt, was 32 and her mother, Charlotte Lane, was 27. She married Charles Canfield Brown on 25 December 1874, in Cambria, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Weber, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 15 August 1936, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 79.
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English:
(of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French leuet ‘wolf cub’ (see Low 3).
habitational name from any of various places in Normandy called Livet. All are of obscure, presumably Gaulish, etymology.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesStory written by Mae Arave, about 1961. My Grandmother, Charlotte Leavitt came to Taylor, Idaho one summer to visit us, my mother being her oldest daughter. One day she and I were picking raspberr …
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