Brief Life History of James Adam
When James Adam Leonard was born on 11 October 1861, in Benhams, Washington, Virginia, United States, his father, Peter H. Leonard, was 31 and his mother, Mary Catherine Tillison, was 25. He married Eliza Rebecca Griffin in 1886, in Washington, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Goodson District, Washington, Virginia, United States in 1910 and Bristol, Virginia, United States in 1920. He died on 30 May 1937, in Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 75.
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- James R Leonard, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: James Adam Leonard - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: James Adam Leonard
- James Leonard, "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987"
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1862 · The Battle of Fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg involved 200,000 troops with General Ambrose Burnside of the army of the Potomac against General Lee’s Army of the North.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
about 1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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