When William Frank Leath was born on 14 April 1858, in Knox, Kentucky, United States, his father, Abraham Ebenezer Leath, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Catherine Baker, was 32. He married Sarah Smith on 24 February 1879, in Knox, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Flat Lick, Knox, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Magisterial District 4, Knox, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 1 January 1944, in Walker, Knox, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Flat Lick, Knox, Kentucky, United States.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived by or worked at a barn, Middle English lathe, from Old Norse hlatha, or possibly for someone who lived near a track, from Middle English, leith, laith (Old Norse leith).
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