Cleveland, Richard Folsom

1897 - 1974  (76 years)

• Name	Cleveland, Richard Folsom  [1, 2]
  Born	28 Oct 1897	Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Find A Grave Memorial	38551271
  Residence	1900	Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA   [3]
  Died	10 Jan 1974	Baltimore, Maryland, USA   [1, 2]
  Buried	Tamworth, Carroll, New Hampshire, USA   [2]
  	Fowlers Mill Cemetery
  Person ID	I24004	Sullivan Burgess Family Tree
  Last Modified	6 May 2018

  
  

  Father	Cleveland, Stephen Grover,   b. 18 Mar 1837, Caldwell, Essex, New Jersey, USA ,   d. 24 Jun 1908, Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA  (Age 71 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Folson, Frances Clara,   b. 21 Jul 1864, Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA ,   d. 29 Oct 1947, Baltimore, Maryland, USA  (Age 83 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	2 Jun 1886	Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  Family ID	F2756	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gailor, Ellen Douglas,   b. 1 Jan 1897, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 17 Feb 1954, Baltimore, Maryland, USA  (Age 57 years)
  Married	20 Jun 1923
  Divorced	1940
  Children	1. Cleveland, Charlotte Gailor,   b. 21 Jan 1930, Baltimore, Maryland, USA ,   d. 10 Feb 2007, Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, USA  (Age 77 years)  [natural]   2. Cleveland, Anne Mary,   b. 3 Jan 1925, Baltimore, Maryland, USA ,   d. 12 Jul 1999, Oklahoma City, Canadian, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 74 years)  [natural]   3. Cleveland, Thomas Grover,   b. 1928, Baltimore, Maryland, USA  [natural]
  Last Modified	6 May 2018
  Family ID	F11096	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 28 Oct 1897 - Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA Residence - 1900 - Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA Died - 10 Jan 1974 - Baltimore, Maryland, USA Buried - - Tamworth, Carroll, New Hampshire, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Cleveland, Richard Folsom and Sisters
  		Cleveland, Richard Folsom and Jessie Black Grave Stone
  		Cleveland, Richard Folsom
  		Cleveland Family Crest

  
  

  Family Crest

  Cleveland Family Crest This interesting surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a regional name from a district in North Yorkshire around Middlebrough. The derivation of Cleveland, which first appears circa 1110 in the Yorkshire Charters as "Clivelanda", is from the Olde English pre 7th Century "clif", cliff or hill, with "land", land; thus, "a hilly district". During the Middle Ages, when it became more usual for people to migrate from their birthplace, they would often adopt the placename as a means of identification, thus resulting in a wide dispersal of the name. In the case of regional names they tended to be acquired when someone travelled a considerable distance from his original home, where a specific locational name would be meaningless to his new neighbours. Early recordings from Yorkshire Church Registers include: the christening of Christiane Cleveland on May 16th 1574, at Filey, and the christening of Ann Cleveland on August 10th 1599, at Normanton. A Coat of Arms granted to a family of the name is described thus: "Per chevron black and ermine a chevron engrailed counterchanged, the Crest being a demi old man proper habited blue having on a cap red turned up with a hair front, holding in the dexter hand a spear headed silver on the top of which is fixed a line proper passing behind him, and coiled up in the sinister hand. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John Cleveland, which was dated April 20th 1572, recorded at Filey, Yorkshire, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1, known as "Good Queen Bess", 1558 - 1603. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

  
  

• Notes

  Son of President Grover Cleveland and Frances Cleveland. Richard would serve as an officer in the Marines during World War I. After his service was over he went to Princeton University and graduated from there in 1919. After his graduation he went on to study law at Harvard Law School where he graduated in 1924. He became a successful lawyer in Baltimore and lived in the city his entire life. In 1967 he became a delegate to the Maryland state constitutional convention. Cleveland passed away in Baltimore and was buried in Carroll, NH. His sister Esther was buried near him when she died six years later.

  
  

• Sources

  [S206] Hyde Genealogy Descendants in the Female as Well as in the Male Lines by Reuben Hyde Walworth, Reuben Hyde Walworth, (Date: 1864;). [S167] FindAGrave, (Name: www.findagrave.com;). Record for Richard Folsom Cleveland [S32] 1900 USA Federal Census, taken June 1, 1900.