James Joseph Leroy Alexander
1911–1978 (Age 67)
Baldwyn, Lee, Mississippi, United States
The Life of James Joseph Leroy
When James Joseph Leroy Alexander was born on 16 January 1911, in Baldwyn, Lee, Mississippi, United States, his father, James May Alexander, was 28 and his mother, Exie Pearl Morris, was 21. He died on 15 September 1978, in his hometown, at the age of 67, and was buried in Prentiss, Mississippi, United States.
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Family Time Line
James Joseph Leroy Alexander
1911–1978
Lucille Outlaw
1912–
Spouse & Children
1911–1978Male
- Lucille Outlaw
1912–Female
Parents & Siblings
1882–1965Male
1889–1927Female
siblings
(2)
- Eland Alexander
1907–1968Male
1911–1978Male
World Events (8)
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Age 1
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
1916 · Mississippi State Sanatorium for TB is Established
Age 5
The Mississippi State Sanatorium is a hospital used for tuberculosis patients. This lasted from 1918 to the 1950s. The Sanatorium has now been turned into a museum.
1929
Age 18
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, German, Dutch; also found in many other cultures: from the personal name Alexander, classical Greek Alexandros, which probably originally meant ‘repulser of men (i.e. of the enemy)’, from alexein ‘to repel’ + andros, genitive of anēr ‘man’. Its popularity in the Middle Ages was due mainly to the Macedonian conqueror, Alexander the Great ( 356–323 bc )—or rather to the hero of the mythical versions of his exploits that gained currency in the so-called Alexander Romances. The name was also borne by various early Christian saints, including a patriarch of Alexandria ( ad c.250–326 ), whose main achievement was condemning the Arian heresy. The Gaelic form of the personal name is Alasdair, which has given rise to a number of Scottish and Irish patronymic surnames, for example Mc Allister . Alexander is a common forename in Scotland, often representing an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name. In North America the form Alexander has absorbed many cases of cognate names from other languages, for example Spanish Alejandro , Italian Alessandro , Greek Alexandropoulos, Russian Aleksandr, etc. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988 .) It has also been adopted as a Jewish name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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