When William Clegg was born on 13 September 1854, in Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Clegg, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Oates, was 26. He married Mary Ann Church in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1863 and lived in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861. He died on 12 February 1908, in La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States.
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Historical Boundaries - 1861: Baker, Oregon, United States; 1864: Union, Oregon, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Clegg, from Old Norse kleggi ‘haystack’, originally the name of a nearby hill. Alternatively, a nickname from Middle English clege and Older Scots cleg, gleg ‘gadfly, horsefly’ (Old Norse kleggi), presumably for an irritating person. The name was taken to Ulster in the early 18th century.
Manx: variant of Clague , which in Lancashire and Cumbria have occasionally been absorbed into Clegg.
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