When Elizabeth Ordelia Leonard was born on 5 May 1834, in Glen Hope, Elk Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jacob Leonard, was 31 and her mother, Margaret Williams, was 28. She married George Ingels Miles on 15 June 1854, in Milesburg, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Jordan Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 25 September 1913, in Chest Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Newburg, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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English; French (Léonard); Walloon (mainly Léonard): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of ancient Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A Christian saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Leonardo , Polish, Slovenian, etc. Lenart or Lenard , and probably also their derivatives. Compare Larned , Learned , and Yenor .
Irish (Fermanagh): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan .
German: variant of Leonhard , cognate with 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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