Brief Life History of Kenneth Leroy
When Kenneth Leroy Neal was born on 17 June 1925, in Tryon, McPherson, Nebraska, United States, his father, Loren Thomas Neal, was 23 and his mother, Nancy Naomi Hill, was 21. He married Betty Jean Jameson on 19 May 1947, in Stapleton, Logan, Nebraska, United States. He lived in McPherson, Nebraska, United States in 1930 and Worden Election Precinct, McPherson, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 6 June 1988, in Thedford, Thomas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Thedford, Thomas, Nebraska, United States.
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- Kenneth L Neal, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Kenneth Leroy Neal - Published information: birth-name: Kenneth Leroy Neal
- Kenneth Leroy Neal, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
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 (of Norman origin): from the Old French, Anglo-Norman French, and Middle English personal name Neel, Nele, Nihel, Niel, itself derived from the Latin name Nigellus (a diminutive of Latin niger ‘black’), originally a nickname for someone with black hair or a dark complexion. The name was very common among Normans and was brought to England at the time of the Norman Conquest. There has been considerable confusion with the Irish and Scottish Gaelic name Niall (see Neil ); the two names are now pronounced identically. It is theoretically possible that in Normandy, where the personal name was popular, that it was also used for Old Norse Njáll, but this is difficult to prove. Njáll was adopted from the Irish Gaelic personal name Niall by Vikings in Ireland, who took it back to Iceland and Norway, but whether the Vikings also took Njáll to Normandy and to the northwest of England, is an open question, which cannot be settled on the available evidence.
English: alternatively from the Middle English personal name Nele, a variant of Nell as a pet form of Elias (see Ellis ). Compare Nelson , Nielson .
Scottish and Irish: shortened form of McNeal (see McNeil ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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