Brief Life History of Leland
When Leland Stevens was born on 27 January 1926, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, his father, Charles Alma Stevens, was 25 and his mother, Mary Walker, was 19. He died on 15 August 1929, in his hometown, at the age of 3, and was buried in Saint George City Cemetery, St. George, Washington, Utah, United States.
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Sources (7)
- Leland Stevens, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
- Leland in entry for Dale Walker Stevens, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- Leland Stevens, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (5)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1927 · Land Covered in Dinosaur Fossils
The quarry was originally found by sheepherders and cattlemen as they drove their animals through the area. The Department of Geology at the University of Utah soon visited the area and found 800 fossils of a variety of Dinosaurs from the Jurassic Era. Because of the proximity of the site to Cleveland, Utah, and because most of the expeditions were financed by Malcolm Lloyd, the site was later known as the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry. In later years, Princeton college spent three summers at the site. They collected a total of 1,200 bones, part of which were sent back to the school and mounted to complete a full skeleton of an Allosaurus, Utah’s State Fossil. Over the years, excavations led to the collection of more than 12,000 fossils from the quarry. It was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1965.
1928 · Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon, being named after Ebenezer Bryce, was designated first as a national monument by President Warren G. Harding in 1923 but was re-designated as a nation park in 1928 by Congress.
Name Meaning
English (London), Flemish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Steven . The surname of Flemish origin is also found in the Walloon part of Belgium. In North America, the English form of the surname has also absorbed some like-sounding Jewish names and various other European cognates, e.g. Greek Stefanidis , Serbian Stevanović (see Stevanovic ), Slovenian and Slovak Štefanič (see Stefanic ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Leland was only 3 years old when he passed away to live with his Savior and family since passed. He was little more than a baby and his untimely death broke his parents hearts as he was their second …
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