Brief Life History of Joseph Leonard
When Joseph Leonard Harris was born on 31 December 1863, in Lee, Virginia, United States, his father, Albert Wesley Harris, was 33 and his mother, Frances Elizabeth Leonard, was 33. He married Henrietta Lindsay Roop on 31 December 1884, in Lee, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Jonesville, Lee, Virginia, United States for about 60 years. In 1920, at the age of 57, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 15 April 1938, in Lee, Virginia, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Jonesville Cemetery, Jonesville, Lee, Virginia, United States.
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- Joseph L Harris in household of A W Harris, "United States Census, 1870"
- Jos L Harris, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
- Joseph Leonard Harris, "Find A Grave Index"
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1864 · Arlington Cemetery
Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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