When Duane Edward Leggett was born on 15 December 1921, in New Harrisburg, Carroll, Ohio, United States, his father, Henry Harrison Leggett, was 34 and his mother, Myrtle Olive John, was 29. He married Evelyn Mae Carlson on 2 December 1941, in Columbus, Stillwater, Montana, United States. He registered for military service in 1943. He died on 3 November 2009, in Mills, Natrona, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery, Evansville, Natrona, Wyoming, United States.
English and Scottish: occupational name from Middle English legat, legate ‘delegate, ambassador, deputy’ (Old French legat), Latin legatus ‘one who is appointed or ordained’.
English: variant of Legard , especially in Sussex, perhaps through confusion of the two names.
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