Leeland Newton Jones Jr.

Male6 June 1921–13 August 2009

Brief Life History of Leeland Newton

When Leeland Newton Jones Jr. was born on 6 June 1921, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States, his father, Leeland Newton Jones Sr., was 28 and his mother, Julia M Anthony, was 25. He registered for military service in 1943. He died on 13 August 2009, in Perry Hall, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Leeland Newton Jones Jr.
1921–2009
Carlita Murphy
1921–2006

Sources (7)

  • Leland Jones Jr. in household of Leland Jones, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Leeland Newton Jones, Jr. - Published information: Family genealogies: birth-name: Leeland Newton Jones, Jr.
  • Leeland N Jr Jones, "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Age 2

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights

Age 2

Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.

1944 · The G.I Bill

Age 23

The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.

Name Meaning

English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.

English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.

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

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