Leonard L. Graves

Brief Life History of Leonard L.

When Leonard L. Graves was born on 14 August 1868, in Hendricks, Indiana, United States, his father, Calvin Graves, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Frances Wren, was 24. He married Nettie Bell Lansberry on 30 September 1891, in Thorntown, Sugar Creek Township, Boone, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Washington Township, Boone, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Sugar Creek Township, Boone, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 25 January 1924, in Lebanon, Boone, Indiana, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Lebanon, Boone, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

Leonard L. Graves
1868–1924
Nettie Bell Lansberry
1873–1898
Marriage: 30 September 1891
Bertha Marie Graves
1892–1969
Aleatha L. Graves
1894–1976

Sources (14)

  • Lin L Graves, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Leonard L. Graves, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
  • Leonard L Graves, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Name Meaning

English (northern and eastern England): variant of Grave , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

English: alternatively, a variant of Greaves or Grieves .

Altered form of German Greff , with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Graves, Leonard L. b 1868

Census 1900 Sugar Creek Twp Boone County, Indiana 12 Jun 1900 Graves, Calvin Head W M Oct 1839 60 34 IN NC NC Married Graves, Sarah H. Wife W F Aug 1844 55 KY KY KY mar …

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