Brief Life History of John Fleming
When John Fleming Wakefield II was born on 21 August 1847, in Lee, Iowa, United States, his father, John Fleming Wakefield, was 34 and his mother, Susannah Garlick, was 27. He married Julia Ann Johnson on 2 May 1870, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Cleveland, Emery, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 1 January 1933, in Huntington, Emery, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Huntington City Cemetery, Huntington, Emery, Utah, United States.
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- John Wakefield, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Fleming Wakefield - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: John Fleming Wakefield II
- John Fleming Wakefield, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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World Events (8)
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in Yorkshire and from Wakefield Lawn in Potterspury (Northamptonshire). Both are named from the Old English personal name Waca or Old English wacu ‘wake, festival’ + feld ‘open country’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Susannah Garlick Wakefield Davis Runnion
This information comes from “John Fleming Wakefield – His Ancestry and Posterity” page 18 and 19 by Melvin Wakefield. John Fleming Wakefield Sr. was the missionary that converted the family of David …
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