Cleveland, Richard Folsom
1897 - 1974 (76 years)
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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 | Charlemagne I Descendant, Ancestors of President Cleveland, The Hyde History, William The Conqueror Descendent Last Modified 1 Jan 2017
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 02 Jun 1886 Washington, District of Columbia, USA Family ID F2756 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Gailor, Ellen Douglas, b. 01 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, Anne Mary, b. 03 Jan 1925, Baltimore, Maryland, USA , d. 12 Jul 1999, Oklahoma City, Canadian, Oklahoma, USA (Age 74 years) [natural]2. Cleveland, Thomas Grover, b. 1928, Baltimore, Maryland, USA [natural]+ 3. Cleveland, Charlotte Gailor, b. 21 Jan 1930, Baltimore, Maryland, USA , d. 10 Feb 2007, Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, USA (Age 77 years) [natural]Last Modified 1 Jan 2017 Family ID F11096 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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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
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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.
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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.
- Son of President Grover Cleveland and Frances Cleveland.
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