Leonard Truman Ward

Brief Life History of Leonard Truman

When Leonard Truman Ward was born on 18 May 1912, in West Virginia, United States, his father, Hiram Lewis Ward Jr, was 42 and his mother, Sarah Francis Hughes, was 40. He married Tiny Lovejoy in 1942, in Kanawha, Red River, Texas, United States. He lived in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States in 1935 and Jefferson District, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 29 December 1986, at the age of 74, and was buried in Scary, Putnam, West Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Leonard Truman Ward
1912–1986
Ruby Atkins
1917–1941
Myrtle Jaine McCallister
1937–2001
Infant Ward
1939–1939

Sources (10)

  • Truman Ward, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Truman Ward, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
  • Truman Leanord Ward, "West Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"

World Events (8)

1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment

The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

1913 · The Seventeenth Amendment

The Seventeenth Amendment allows the people of each state to elect their own Senators instead of having the state legislature assign them.

1932

Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).

English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.

Irish: shortened form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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