Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Leonard was born on 19 August 1882, in Urbana, Urbana Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States, her father, Thomas Bernard Leonard, was 27 and her mother, Mary Agnes Brennan, was 23. She married Omar Virgil Watson on 21 January 1907, in Champaign, Ohio, United States. She lived in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1930 and Montgomery Township, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died in 1955, at the age of 73, and was buried in Urbana, Urbana Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States.
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Sources (8)
- Bessie Leonard in household of Mary Leonard, "United States Census, 1900"
- Mary E Leonard, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Mary Elizabeth Leonard, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
Spouse and Children
1878–1964 Male
1882–1955 Female
Parents and Siblings
1855–1892 Male
1858–1936 Female
Siblings (5)
1882–1955 Female
1883–1968 Female
1885–1958 Male
1886–1937 Male
1890–1945 Female
World Events (8)
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
Age 2
1886
Age 4
1902 · So Much Farm Land
Age 20
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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