Brief Life History of Virginia Rose
When Virginia Rose Leonard was born on 15 August 1918, in Aberdeen, Grays Harbor, Washington, United States, her father, Roy Irving Leonard, was 32 and her mother, Rose Ann Buxton, was 37. She married Jesse Edward Curtis on 15 August 1940, in Pierce, Washington, United States. She lived in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States for about 20 years. She died in 2009, at the age of 91.
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- Virginia R Curtis, "United States 1950 Census"
- Virginia Rose Leonard, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
- Virginia R Leonard, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1919 · Seattle General Strike
The Seattle general strike was a five day strike in 1919, where around 65,000 workers began striking for higher wages. This happened two years after WWI wage controls.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
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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