Brief Life History of Harry Paul
When Harry Paul Lees was born on 30 October 1894, in Boone, Boone, Iowa, United States, his father, Harry Judson Lees, was 31 and his mother, Lorena Maxwell, was 28. He married Nellie Dunham Adamson on 21 May 1922, in Independence, Montgomery, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Boone, Iowa, United States for about 20 years and Chelsea, Rogers, Oklahoma, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 11 February 1972, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Harry P Lees, "United States 1950 Census"
- Harry Paul Lees, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
- Harry P Lees, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English lees ‘fields, arable land’, plural of lee (see Lee ), or from Middle English lese ‘pasture, meadow’ (Old English lǣs).
English: habitational name fromLeece or Lees in Lancashire, or Leese in Cheshire, all named from OldEnglish lēas ‘woodland clearings’ (plural oflēah), or from Leece in Cumbria, which was probably namedwith a Celtic word, lïss ‘hall, court, the principalhouse in a district’.
English: variant of Leece 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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