Leldon Claude Adams

Brief Life History of Leldon Claude

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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Leldon Claude Adams
1919–2005
Eloise Adaline Pass
1919–2013
Marriage: 22 April 1942
Dan Leldon Adams
1944–1991

Sources (15)

  • Leldon C Adams, "United States Census, 1950"
  • Leldon Claude Adams, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  • Leldon C Adams, "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"

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1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1920

Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.

1942 · The Japanese American internment

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.

Name Meaning

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.

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

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