Brief Life History of Benjamin Franklin
When Benjamin Franklin Leonard was born on 30 November 1843, in Spring Place, Murray, Georgia, United States, his father, John William Leonard, was 43 and his mother, Jane B. Adams, was 34. He married Sarah Elizabeth Holland on 20 January 1867, in Murray, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in White Oak, Franklin, Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Polk Township, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States for about 20 years. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 9 November 1923, in Oden, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Pencil Bluff, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States.
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- Benjamin Leonard, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Benjamin Franklin Leonard - Published information: Cemetery record or headstone: birth: 30 November 1843; Spring Place, Murray, Georgia, United States
- Benjamin F Leonard, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Montgomery, Arkansas, United States
1864 · Skirmish at Benton
Confederate forces in Arkansas began an invasion of Missouri, while other Confederate sources probed the line around Little Rock. On July 6, 1864 the fourth Arkansas Cavalry tried to break the line around Little Rock one soldier was killed, eight were wounded, three went missing from the Union side and four were killed and six wounded from the Confederate side.
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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