Brief Life History of Henry Alonzo
When Henry Alonzo Leonard was born in April 1856, in North Carolina, United States, his father, John Leonard, was 49 and his mother, Louisa Macy, was 38. He married Mary Alice Sulllivan on 27 February 1887, in Shelby, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Guilford, North Carolina, United States in 1860 and Hanover Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States for about 30 years. He died in 1909, at the age of 53, and was buried in Morristown, Hanover Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States.
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- Henry L Leonard in household of Jno Leonard, "United States Census, 1860"
- Henry Seward, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Henry Alonzo Leonard, "Find A Grave Index"
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Name Meaning
English; French (Léonard); Walloon (mainly Léonard): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of ancient Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A Christian saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Leonardo , Polish, Slovenian, etc. Lenart or Lenard , and probably also their derivatives. Compare Larned , Learned , and Yenor .
Irish (Fermanagh): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan .
German: variant of Leonhard , cognate with 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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