When Annie Lee Wagner was born on 17 October 1885, in Catawba, North Carolina, United States, her father, Henry Davis Wagner, was 24 and her mother, Blandelia Coltharp, was 23. She married Oscar Elias Leonard on 23 December 1906, in Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Hickory Township, Catawba, North Carolina, United States in 1900. She died on 14 January 1957, in Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Catawba Memorial Park, Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina, United States.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Wägner): occupational name for a carter and (in some dialects) a cartwright, from an agent derivative of Middle High German wagen ‘cart, wagon’, German Wagen. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Britain, Poland, and Denmark. In Hungary it is mostly spelled Wágner and Vágner. In Russia, Czechia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Slovakia it is also found in the Slavicized form Vagner . Compare Wagener , Waggener , and Wagoner .
Dutch and perhaps also English: occupational name from Middle Dutch waghenaer ‘carter’ (compare 1 above). The Dutch word is not known to have been borrowed into English before 1600 but the surname Wagner is recorded in Norfolk (England) from 1379, perhaps a substitution of the Dutch word for Middle English wainer. Compare Waggoner .
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