Brief Life History of Electa Jane
When Electa Jane Lee was born on 25 April 1838, in Far West, Caldwell, Missouri, United States, her father, Francis Lee, was 26 and her mother, Jane Vail Johnson, was 22. She married Lorenzo Dow Young on 22 November 1855, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1850 and lived in Cache, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 15 April 1916, in Panaca, Lincoln, Nevada, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Panaca, Lincoln, Nevada, United States.
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- Electa Edwards, "United States Census, 1860"
- Electa Jane Lee Young Edwards, "Find A Grave Index"
- Electa J. Lee in entry for Francis Esais Edwards, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1851
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Tuila, Utah Territory, United States 1852: Tooele, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Tooele, Utah, United States
1856
Nevada is the 36th state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.
English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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