Brief Life History of William J.
When William J. Leffingwell was born on 27 June 1843, in Montrose, Lee, Iowa, United States, his father, William Leffingwell, was 37 and his mother, Eunice Bigelow, was 38. He married Mary Melissa Woods on 2 October 1870, in San Luis Obispo, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in San Simeon Judicial Township, San Luis Obispo, California, United States in 1900 and San Simeon, San Luis Obispo, California, United States in 1910. He died on 11 October 1913, in Cambria, San Luis Obispo, California, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Cambria Cemetery, Cambria, San Luis Obispo, California, United States.
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- William Leffingnell in household of Wm Leffingnell, "United States Census, 1870"
- William Leffingruel, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
- William J Leffingwell in entry for Mrs Annie Pearl Leffingwell Berganin, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: San Luis Obispo, California, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Leppingwells in Essex, which is recorded as Leffingwelles in 1561 and owed its name to the possessions there of the family of Robert de Leffeldewelle (1302), who is called Leffingwell in an Elizabethan transcript of the Court Rolls.
History: The family, called Leffingwell in the 15th century and Leppingwell in the 16th, took its name from a lost place recorded as Liffildeuuella in 1086 (from the Old English personal name Lēofhild + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’), which may survive in a corrupt form in Levit's Corner in Pebmarsh (Essex), into which their possessions extended.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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