When Leldon Claude Adams was born on 20 October 1919, in Cleveland, Blount, Alabama, United States, his father, Grady Ester Adams, was 18 and his mother, Esther Irene Blackwood, was 19. He married Eloise Adaline Pass on 22 April 1942, in Etowah, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Election Precinct 13 Whites, Blount, Alabama, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 1 Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama, United States for about 1 years. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 15 July 2005, in Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Blount, Alabama, United States.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
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