Lemuel Morrison Belvel

Brief Life History of Lemuel Morrison

When Lemuel Morrison Belvel was born on 23 December 1874, in Lineville, Wayne, Iowa, United States, his father, James Alexander Belville, was 38 and his mother, Catherine Nancy McCarty, was 33. He married Valera Mabel "Vera" Greenlee on 4 May 1898, in Lineville, Wayne, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Grand River Township, Wayne, Iowa, United States for about 20 years and United States in 1949. He died on 4 May 1950, in Iowa, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lineville, Wayne, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Lemuel Morrison Belvel
1874–1950
Valera Mabel "Vera" Greenlee
1875–1973
Marriage: 4 May 1898
Belvel
1899–1899
Mildred Belvel
1901–
Myra R. Belvel
1907–

Sources (16)

  • Lemuel M Belvel, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Lemuel M. Belvel, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • Lemuel M Belvel, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

1884 · There is now a Capital Building

The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

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

Some characteristic forenames: French Octave, Fernand, Lorette, Marcel.

French and Haitian: topographic name from French bel val ‘beautiful valley’, or a habitational name from (Le) Belval, the name of several places in the northern part of France, as for example in Ardennes, Manche, and Vosges, and in Haiti.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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