Carlos Leroy Dunford

19 May 1884–25 August 1921 (Age 37)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

The Life Summary of Carlos Leroy

When Carlos Leroy Dunford was born on 19 May 1884, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Alma Bailey Dunford, was 33 and his mother, Lovinia Tracilla Clayton, was 29. He married Eleanor Hazel Love on 1 September 1910, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910 and Salt Lake City Ward 1, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 25 August 1921, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Carlos Leroy Dunford
1884–1921
Eleanor Hazel Love
1884–1937
Marriage: 1 September 1910
Stephen Love Dunford
1912–1969
Love Clayton Dunford
1913–1976
Burns Love Dunford
1918–2007

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1 September 1910Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
    • Children

    (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (8)

    +3 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1886
    Age 2
    Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
    1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
    Age 2
    The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
    1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
    Age 12
    A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Dunn
    Dumford

    Story Highlight

    HAZEL LOVE DUNFORD, 1884-1937

    (Source: Gloria Dunford Lloyd, Remember Who You Are: The Life Stories of L. Clayton and Elizabeth Bitner Dunford; The L. Clayton and Elizabeth Bitner Dunford Family Association, Salt Lake City, 2005) …

    Sources (38)

    • Carlos Leroy Dunford in entry for Dunford, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
    • Carlos Leroy Dunford, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
    • Carlos L in entry for Love Clayton Dunford and Elizabeth Bitner, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

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